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Wandsworth 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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62 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1937.

Table: Infant Visiting.TABLE XXVIII.

Infant Visiting.

TABLE XXVIII.

Clapham.Putney.Balham.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
No. of children visited:—
Under 1 year6503164855583789263313
1-2 years14621117,41
2-5 years5142122686
Revisits to :—
Infants under 1 year960421423114447113144733
Children 1-2 years ..82633634387443711343950
Children 2-5 years ..1291534660160683422457170
Total visits to children under Notification of Births Act37921617191541842123566219293
Other visits—:
Foster Mothers21010015920569174917
Ophthalmia Neonatorum521731230
Measles96346559108241603
Whooping Cough16110928172684731011
Ante-natal cases7053523887994059023551
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia---6-1016
Miscellaneous2481892512792096531829
Ineffectual1453762691152977220027209
Total Home Visits667031653493724037571012934459

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The home visiting carried out by the Superintendents of the
Clapham, Balham and Putney Park Centres, who are not officers
of the Council, are not included in the above Table. These officers
made 3,270 visits—1,803 to children under one year, 518 to children
between one and two years, and 949 to children between two and
five years of age.