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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
Tottenham 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The work of the MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
STAFF is set out in tabular form hereunder
HOME VISITS MADE UNDER THE NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS AND MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
ACT.
| Children under 1 year | Children over 1 year | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Visits | Re-visits | 1st Visits | Revisits | ||
| Notification of Births | 2,539 | 7,543 | 293 | 18,256 | 28,631 |
| Still-births | 71 | 54 | — | — | 125 |
| Deaths | 33 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 61 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Discharging eyes | 20 | 55 | - | - | 75 |
| fOther Infectious Diseases | 53 | 125 | 118 | 171 | 467 |
| Total | 2,716 | 7,789 | 424 | 18,430 | 29,359 |
| Maternity Visits— | |||||
| 1st Visits | Re-visits | ||||
| Ante-Natal | 428 | 578 | — | - | 1,006 |
| Post-Natal | 778 | 755 | — | — | 1,533 |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 4 | — | — | 9 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 11 | 17 | — | - | 28 |
| * Other Visits | |||||
| 1st Visit | Re-Visits | ||||
| 457 | 383 | — | — | 840 | |
| Total Visits | — | — | — | — | 32,775 |
†Other Infectious Diseases include Measles and German Measles, Bronchial
Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough, Poliomyelitis.
*Other visits and revisits include visits to hospital with swabs in connection
with suspected contagious disease; massage cases, complaints of neglect
and inspection of premises as to their suitability for nursing of children
after operation and visits for assisted milk supply.