[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking] page 80

Barking 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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64. WORK OF THE HEALTH VISITORS AND THE INFANT CLINICS.

An analysis of the attendance at the Infant Welfare Centres is given in the following table:—

Infant Welfare Centres.	Clinic Premises.	Alex. Centre.	Movers Lane.	St. Albans.	Totals.
No. of sessions	102	100	100	91	393
No. of attendances of children under one year:— (a) New cases	226	152	127	249	754
(b) old cases	2676	2009	1449	2319	8453
No. of attendances of children 1 to 5 years of age :— (a) new cases	61	37	26	238	362
(b) old cases	1216	1471	876	1532	5095
Average number of attendances per session	41	37	25	48	37
No. of sessions attended by medical officers	101	100	100	91	392
No. of children seen by medical officers :— (a) Under one year	1528	1063	869	1098	4558
(b) Over one year	760	721	680	915	3076
Average number of children seen by medical officer per session	23	18	15	22	19

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The total attendances during the year were 14,664 as compared with 10,717
in 1930.

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Particulars of the home visits paid by the health visitors are given in the following table :—

No. of ante-natal visits :— First visits	143
Subsequent visits	41
No. of first visits to children under one year	1,417
No. of subsequent visits to children under one year :— (a) Attending a Centre	225
(b) Not attending a Centre	2,788
No. of visits to children 1 to 5 years of age :— (a) Attending a Centre	119
(b) Not attending a Centre	4,908
No. of special visits in connection with Ophthalmia Neonatorum	20
Ditto Deaths of children up to 3 years of age	49
Ditto Still-births	20
Ditto Puerperal Sepsis and Puerperal Pyrexia	4
Ditto Foster Children	57
Other visits (re infectious diseases)	178
Total home visits of all kinds	9,969