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 Woolwich]
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Table No. 57
Zymotic Enteritis—First | 41 | 11 |
„ „ Re-visits | 37 | 2 |
Tuberculosis Visits | 70 | 42 |
Pneumonia | 104 | 207 |
Visits unclassified | 666 | 562 |
Visits unsuccessful | 2,736 | 1,739 |
121,073 | 22,148 |
Supply of Milk, etc., to Necessitous, Expectant and Nursing
Mothers and Milk to Young Children. The approximate cost
of this service during the year was as follows:—
Dried milk, £1,260 19s. Id.; Fresh milk, nil; Dinners, 9s.
A scale of income approved by the Ministry of Health is used
as a test of necessity and the details of this scale will be
found in the annual report for 1923.
No cases were found during the year where milk was
obtained by false pretences.
Feeding of Infants in Woolwich. The usual enquiry was
carried out in the month of June and the results are verisimilar
to those obtained in the three previous years. Table
No. 58 shews the results of the enquiry:—