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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
Shoreditch 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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| III. Epidemic Diarrhœa | 35 | ||
| Infant death enquiries | 25 | ||
| Visits to notified cases | 10 | ||
| IV. Notifications of Puerperal Septicœmia | 4 | ||
| Visits | |||
| Revisits | 1 | ||
| V. Notifications of Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 16 | ||
| Visits | |||
| Revisits | 2 | ||
| VI. Notifications of Tuberculosis | 134 | ||
| 97 | |||
| Revisits | 37 | ||
| (b.) Enquiries into deaths from tuberculosis | 25 | ||
| VII. Miscellaneous work in connection with above | 142 | ||
| ( (a.) Visits to homes | 78 | ||
| 64 | |||
| VIII. Futile visits | 309 | ||
| Total number | 2,764 | ||
Notifications of Births.
The addresses of 489 births notified in Hoxton, lying to the west of East
Road and New North Road, were handed to Miss Childe, Superintendent of the
Shoreditch School for Mothers, and these were visited by Miss Childe, and
reports handed into me.
These addresses related to approximately one third of the births occurring in
Hoxton during the year up to and including November. Since that time, the
arrangement for furnishing information to the School has terminated, and I have,
as previous to the formation of the School, visited in the whole of Hoxton.
Since April 1st, I have according to your instructions not visited those
attended by the midwives from Harman Street.
The remainder of the births have, with very few exceptions, been visited by
me at least once, and many have been several times revisited. The exceptions
are made for some definite reason which makes visiting less necessary than usual.