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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Cases Notified and Visited.
| Number of notifications received | 21 |
| Very slight cases | 13 |
| Sight of one eye damaged | — |
| Recovered | 21 |
| Occurred in Institutions | 3 |
| Occurred in the practice of medical practitioners | — |
| Occurred in the practice of midwives | 18 |
| Admitted to hospital as in-patients | 11 |
| Treated as hospital out-patients | 1 |
| Treated privately | 9 |
| Visited by nurse | 10 |
| Notifications received (Patients under 5 years) | 27 | |
| Under 1 year (see feeding below) | 10 | |
| 1 to 2 years | 8 | |
| 2 to 3 years | 3 | |
| 3 to 4 years | 4 | |
| 4 to 5 years | 2 | |
| Died before notification received | 2 | |
| Visited | 27 | |
| Treated in hospitals | 7 |
Of the 10 cases of Zymotic Enteritis under 1 year of age which were
notified, 4 died. All were hand-fed. The remaining 6 were fed as
follows:—Breast-fed, —; mixed feeding, 1; hand-fed, 5.
Home Nursing.
By arrangement with the Nursing Associations nursing is provided
(with the consent of the practitioner attending a patient) and paid for by
the Council at the rate of 1s. 3d. per visit, in cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Measles, Whooping Cough, Pneumonia, Zymotic Enteritis,
Pemphigus, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.