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 Enfield]
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The following table gives particulars of the work done by the Health Visitors during the year.
Visits.
Town, Chase and Hadley. | Bush Hill Park. | Ordnance. | Ponders End. | Totals. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Birth Notification Visits | 242 | 189 | 256 | 256 | 943 |
Ditto lie-visits | 333 | 501 | 468 | 728 | 2,030 |
Children, 1-5 years. Visits | 1,018 | 1,075 | 1,289 | 1,441 | 4,823 |
Visits re Insanitary Conditions | 52 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 57 |
General Visits | 313 | 63 | 70 | 65 | 511 |
Ante-Natal Visits | 210 | 94 | 113 | 122 | 539 |
Post-Natal Visits | — | 94 | 50 | 37 | 181 |
Blank Visits | 284 | 141 | 88 | 224 | 737 |
Infectious Disease Visits | 101 | 100 | 154 | 77 | 432 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum Visits | 1 | - | 3 | - | |
Puerperal Fever Visits | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia Visits | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Visits re Foster Children | 25 | 15 | 14 | 29 | 83 |
Totals | 2,581 | 2,277 | 2,508 | 2,982 | 10,348 |
Feeding. | Town, Chase and Hadley | % | Bush Hill Park | % | Ordnance | % | Ponders End | % | Totals | % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural | 208 | 85 | 176 | 93 | 238 | 92 | 217 | 84 | 839 | 89 |
Artificial | 34 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 39 | 15 | 102 | 10 |
Mixed | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 | |
Separate Cot | 222 | 91 | 167 | 88 | 197 | 76 | 224 | 87 | 810 | 85 |
Number of Births notified 1,034, which includes 247 born outside the district, 91.1 per cent of which were visited. |