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 Stepney]
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HEALTH VISITORS REPORT.
DISTRICT | Mile End, S.W | Ratcliffe, Shadwell. St. George's | St. George's, North | Mile End, S.E. | Mile End, North East | Mile End Central and Limehouse, W | Wapping | Whitechapel and Spitalfields | Limehouse, North | Limehouse, South | Mile End | |||
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Name | Miss Addis | Miss Railey | Miss Clements | Miss Cordwell | Miss Foucar | Miss Gibbs | Mips Goodfellow | Miss Mitchell | Miss Styles | Miss Virtue | Miss Whitty | Total | ||
Primary | 574 | 532 | 289 | 273 | 210 | 412 | 158 | 418 | 368 | 303 | 361 | 3,898 | ||
Revisits:— | ||||||||||||||
To infants under 1 year | 408 | 255 | 211 | 639 | 467 | 838 | 924 | 477 | 552 | 605 | 356 | 5,732 | ||
To children between 1-5 years | 427 | 655 | 674 | 1,705 | 1,289 | 1,482 | 982 | 687 | 1,051 | 819 | 904 | 10,675 | ||
Ante-natal:— | ||||||||||||||
Primary | 88 | 45 | 65 | 2 | 7 | 29 | 36 | 177 | 16 | 2 | 118 | 585 | ||
Subsequent | 11 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 241 | 10 | 0 | 25 | 305 | ||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 55 | |||
Puerperal Fever | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | ||
,, Pyrexia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | ||
Measles | 403 | 09 | 71 | 8 | 193 | 117 | 38 | 253 | 102 | 55 | 216 | 1,555 | ||
Miscellaneous | 633 | 578 | 308 | 549 | 399 | 242 | 691 | 432 | 181 | 51 | 508 | 4,572 | ||
Total | 2,547 | 2,171 | 1,628 | 3,185 | 2,569 | 3,128 | 2,835 | 2,723 | 2,285 | 1,839 | 2,495 | 27,405 | ||
CENTRES ATTENDED:— | ||||||||||||||
Municipal | 48 | 197 | 211 | 0 | 117 | 14 | 150 | 155 | 209 | 168 | 142 | 1,411 | ||
Voluntary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 93 | 152 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 336 | ||
Total | 48 | 198 | 211 | 90 | 210 | 166 | 150 | 155 | 209 | 168 | 142 | 1,747 |