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 Mitcham]
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Visits paid by Health Visitors, 1938.
Mrs. Wray | Miss Russell Harris | Mrs. Parsons | Miss Burke | Miss Leigh | Miss Abbott (temporary) | Total | |
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Primary ante-natal visits | 29 | 56 | 27 | 60 | 68 | — | 240 |
Subsequent ante-natal visits | 46 | 66 | 31 | 39 | 86 | — | 268 |
Primary birth visits | 115 | 272 | 99 | 136 | 243 | 60 | 925 |
Subsequent visits to infants | 72 | 879 | 333 | 731 | 655 | 293 | 2963 |
Visits to children under five years of age | 156 | 1528 | 690 | 605 | 1311 | 611 | 4901 |
Visits re stillbirths | — | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | — | 13 |
Visits re deaths of infants under one year of age | 6 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 12 | — | 37 |
Visits re cases of ophthalmia neonatorum | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 |
Visits re cases of puerperal pyrexia | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
Primary visits to cases of tuberculosis | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | 99 |
Subsequent visits to cases of tuberculosis | 619 | — | — | — | — | — | 619 |
Special visits | 486 | — | — | — | — | — | 486 |
1633 | 2813 | 1189 | 1578 | 2379 | 964 | 10556 |