Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Maternity and Child Welfare. 65
TABLE XXVIII.
Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | Whole Borough. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of children visited:- | |||||||
Under 1 year | 725 | 372 | 595 | 577 | 373 | 1011 | 3653 |
1-2 years | — | 22 | 4 | — | — | 43 | 69 |
2-5 years | — | 9 | — | — | 1 | 20 | 30 |
Revisits to:— | |||||||
Infants under 1 year | 1357 | 773 | 651 | 981 | 543 | 1594 | 5899 |
Children 1-2 years | 1134 | 545 | 471 | 877 | 494 | 1394 | 4915 |
Children 2-5 years | 1862 | 771 | 748 | 1582 | 1049 | 2999 | 9011 |
Total visits to children under Notification of Births Act | 5078 | 2492 | 2469 | 4017 | 2460 | 7061 | 23577 |
Other visits—: | |||||||
Foster Mothers | 153 | 143 | 108 | 228 | 124 | 137 | 893 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | — | 3 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 30 |
Measles | 720 | 284 | 471 | 831 | 766 | 1131 | 4203 |
Whooping Cough | 29 | 6 | 79 | 71 | 100 | 118 | 403 |
Ante-natal cases | 802 | 449 | 551 | 927 | 393 | 1131 | 4253 |
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | — | 15 | 32 |
Miscellaneous | 251 | 229 | 217 | 232 | 196 | 351 | 1486 |
Ineffectual | 1538 | 622 | 1014 | 1442 | 1252 | 2763 | 8631 |
Total Home Visits | 8593 | 4230 | 4915 | 7762 | 5293 | 12715 | 43508 |
The home visiting carried out by the Superintendents of the
Balham and Putney Park Centres, who are not officers of the
Council, are not included in the above Table. These officers
made 2,667 visits—1,057 to children under one year, and 1,610 to
children between one and five years of age.
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