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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

Barking 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: Particulars of the work of the health visitors and centres will be found in the following tables :—

Particulars of the work of the health visitors and centres will be found in the following tables :—

No. of ante-natal visits10
No. of first visits to children under one year872
No. of subsequent visits to children under one year :—
(a) Attending a Centre372
(b) Not Attending a Centre2,303
No. of visits to children 1 to 5 years of age :—
(a) Attending a Centre119
(b) Not attending a Centre751
No. of special visits in connection with Ophthalmia
Neonatorum7
Ditto Deaths of children up to 3 years of age89
Ditto Still-births9
Ditto Puerperal Sepsis2
Ditto Foster Children42
Other visits (not specified)194

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Average No. of home visits per working day equal to 27.4
It may be pointed out that the number of children seen is
obviously greater than the number of visits might imply, e.g.,
there may be two or more children seen under five years of age
in one home where the visit thereto is simply recorded as one.
dental al treatment, including the provision oe
dentures for expectant and nursing mothers
and massage and remedial treatment for
CHILDREN' UNDER FIVE YEARS OF AGE.
Ihe following scheme for submission to the Maternity and
C hiid Wellare Committee was prepared by the Medical Officer
Health towards the close of the year, and the following recommendations
made :—
(I) That arrangements be made for taking advantage of the
massage and remedial, etc., clinic, established by the Education
Committee at the Special School for the treatment of physical
defects in children under 5 years of age, and that the Education
Committee be re-imbursed by the Public Health Committee on
the percentage of such attendances to the total;