London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Acton 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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| Number of Children over 1 year of age | 891 |
| Children who attended for first time | 1372 |
| Children treated at Dental Clinic | 165 |
| Children treated at Ophthalmic Clinic | 8 |
| Mothers treated at Ophthalmic Clinic | — |
| Children treated for Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids | 3 |
| Number of attendances by Dr. Bell | 24 |
| Number of Expectant Mothers who attended | 113 |
| Number of attendances made by Expectant Mothers | 170 |
| Mothers referred for Dental treatment at the Clinic | 46 |
| Mothers supplied with Dentures | 10 |
| Expectant Mothers to whom Dried Milk was supplied | 20 |
| Number of packets of Dried Milk supplied | 248 |
| Inquests | 40. | ||
| Run over by a motor car | 11 | Fall in road | 1 |
| Accidental fall | 8 | Fall from bicycle | 1 |
| Suicide | 7 | Accidental drowning | 1 |
| Injury at birth | 3 | Killed by a train | 1 |
| Accidental burns | 2 | Phthisis | 1 |
| Knocked down by a bicycle | 1 | Syncope | 1 |
| Injury to finger | 1 | Toxaemia of pregnancy | 1 |
| Coroner's Certificate after Post-Mortem without | |||
| Inquest | 24 | ||
| Fatty degeneration of Heart | 4 | Status Lymphaticus | 1 |
| Arterio-scelerosis | 4 | Bronchitis | 1 |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 2 | Endocarditis | 1 |
| Cardiac Denegeration | 2 | Ulcer of Stomach | 1 |
| Nephritis | 2 | Congenital heart disease | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 2 | Intestinal obstruction | 1 |
| Rupture of Aortic valve | 1 | Meningococcal Meningitis | 1 |
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces
including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
Number of
Premises. Inspections. Written Notices.
(1) (2) (3)
Factories 83 7
(Including Factory Laundries).
Workshops 304 18
(Including Workshop Laundries).
Workplaces 18 Nil
(Other than Outworkers' Premises).
Total 405 25