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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 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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REPORT OF HEALTH VISITOR.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Bethnal Green.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit to you a short
account of my work during the past nine months.
It has been almost entirely that entailed by the
working of the " Notification of Births Act."
A larger percentage of births were notified this year
than previously, only a few having escaped.
The births notified numbered 3,675.
Notifications were sent in by
Doctors 829
Midwives 1,073
London Hospital Maternity Assistants
and Midwives 1,284
Infirmary 64
Relatives 320
By whom not stated 86
3,656
The mothers were attended at their Confinements by
Doctors 1,054
Midwives 1,212
London Hospital Midwives or Maternity
Assistants 1,248
Whom not stated 106
3,620