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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
Bethnal Green 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX.
Report of Woman Sanitary Inspector.
Public Health Department,
Bethnal Green.
To the Medical Officer of Health,
Sir,
I have the honour to submit to you a short
account of the work done by me in this Borough during
the past year.
The work has been almost entirely that involved in
the working of the Notification of Births Act, and has
included the visiting of newly born infants and their
mothers, inspection in cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorium,
and Puerperal Fever, and investigation of the circumstances
attending fatal cases of Summer Diarrhœa.
Owing to the fact that from various causes (excessive
heat, strikes, unusual poverty) there was during this
year a very large amount of illness among infants and
young children, an increased number of re-inspections
proved to be not only desirable, but imperatively
called for.
The number of visits paid was as follows:—
| After notification of births | 1,964 |
| For sp cial reasons (such as illness, poverty, etc.) | 149 |
| Re-visits | 298 |
| Enquiries after infantile deaths | 150 |
| Total number of visits paid | 2,561 |