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Shoreditch 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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REPORT
ON
HEALTH VISITING, HAGGERSTON.
BY
Maude E. Jacocks,
Health Visitor,
Certificates of Derbyshire Royal Infirmary; Queen Charlotte's Hospital; Central Midwivcs
Board; Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute and Royal Sanitary Institute.
Town Hall,
Shoreditch, E.C.
To the Medical Officer of Health. January, 1916.
Sir,
I have pleasure in submitting the Report on the wort of Health Visiting
in the Haggerston Division during the year 1915.
The total number of visits paid, included interviews, attendances at the
Haggerston Baths Centre, and the Maternity Centre, 152, Kingsland Road, also
attendances of mothers at the same, amounted to 4,603.
This number was distributed as follows:—
| 1. | Visits under the Notification of Births Act:— | |
| First visit 1,309 | ||
| Revisit 554 | ||
| 1,863 | ||
| 2. | Ante-natal cases | 62 |
| 3. | 51 | |
| (&) Parents attendances at Haggerston Baths Centre | 1,264 | |
| 4. | (a) Attendances at Maternity Centre | 61 |
| (&) Parents attendances at Maternity Centre | 303 | |
| 5. | Visits in connection with Ophthalmia Neonatorum:— | |
| First visits 15 | ||
| Revisits 37 | ||
| 52 | ||
| 6. | Visits in connection with Diarrhoea in infants | 11 |
| 7. | Enquiries into infantile deaths from Diarrhoea | 17 |
| 8. | Enquiries into cases of Puerperal Septicaemia:— | |
| First visits 4 | ||
| Revisits 4 | ||
| 8 | ||