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 Hackney]
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Name and Situation. | Nature of Accommodation. | By whom provided. |
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Hope Lodge, 4, Clapton Common | Home for 23 mothers and 12 babies | Salvation Army. |
Cotland, 9, Amhurst Park | Home for 27 mothers and 19 babies | Salvation Army. |
Cotswold, 55, Downs Road | Home for 32 mothers and 22 babies | Salvation Army. |
Lome House I., 16, Rectory Road | Home for 10 mothers and 7 babies | Salvation Army. |
Lome House II., 126 & 128, Lower Clapton Road | Home for 24 mothers and 20 babies | Salvation Army. |
Sapsworth House, 122 & 124, Lr. Clapton Road | Home for 28 mothers and 19 babies | Salvation Army. |
Hostel for East End Mothers and Babies, 159, Richmond Road | Home for 8 mothers and 8 babies | Church of England. |
St. Mary's, 153, Stamford Hill | Home for 28 mothers and 40 babies | Church of England. |
Home Helps.—Fifty-seven applications were received during
1936 for the assistance of a "home help" under the Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme. This is a marked increase in the use of this
facility. The previous year only 2 applications were received.
Nursing Assistance.—A description of the scheme in operation
in the Borough for professional nursing in the homes of sick persons
is set out on page 33 of this Report.
In order to facilitate reference, however, a table is given here to show the extent to which the services of the nurses employed by the Hackney District Nursing Association have been utilised during the past year under the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme:—
Disease. | No. of Cases Nursed. | No. of Visits Paid. |
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Infantile Diarrhoea | 2 | 19 |
Maternity Nursing | 117 | 1508 |
Measles (children under 5 years of age) | 223 | 3061 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 26 | 795 |
Pneumonia (children under 5 years of age) | 28 | 482 |
Whooping Cough (children under 5 years of age | 12 | 189 |
Other ailments (nursing mothers and children under 5 years of age) | 162 | 2216 |
Totals | 570 | 8270 |