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Wandsworth 1940

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1940.

Table: TABLE XIII.—HEALTH VISITING.

TABLE XIII.—HEALTH VISITING.

Wandsworth.Putney.Clapham.Balham.Streatham.Tooting.Whole Borough.
Children under 1 year :—
First visits8753015714044844593094
Revisits13084458838217953064558
Children 1-5 years:—
All visits3976106523821433182287611554
Total61591811383626583101164119206
Other visits:—
Expectant mothers8903795734906743173323
Foster mothers623648449645331
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1112-21026
Measles511639462435211
Whooping Cough2137124754
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia31121311
Finding billets for foreign refugees100170314672091601020
For evacuation of children979695136321016717815195
Miscellaneous106363311403141581085
Ineffectual2393954152478517237428121
Total Home Visits107754102803844546315489938583

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Included in the above Table are 1,375 visits made by the Superintendent
of the Balham Centre, who is not an officer of the Council. 498 of these
were revisits to children under 1 year, 679 to children between 1 and 5 years
and 198 to expectant mothers.