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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
Battersea 1911
[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911]
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from the normal progress of the infants are reported to the Medical
Officer of Health.
Some success is being obtained by the health visitors also in
endeavouring to induce mothers to discontinue the use of those
useless and dangerous contrivancies known by the name of
dummies. It is most gratifying to find that the work of the Official
Health Visitors and female Sanitary Inspectors is proving so
successful, more especially in connection with child life, and that
these Officers' visits are so greatly appreciated bymothers.
The following is a summary of the work done by the Health
Visitors and female Sanitary Inspectors during 1911:—
Visits paid by Health Visitors to homes of infants
admitted to Milk Depot 1,226
Attendances of Health Visitors at Weighing-rooms 146
Number of infants attending Weighing-rooms 306
Weights registered 3,903
Number of infants under observation at home 98
| District. | 65 and under 75. | 75 and under 85. | 85 and upwards. | Total over 65. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Battersea | 131 | 86 | 29 | 246 |
| North-West Battersea | 80 | 48 | 21 | 149 |
| South-West Battersea | 106 | 69 | 21 | 196 |
| Borough of Battersea | 317 | 203 | 71 | 591 |
| The 591 deaths over 65 were equivalent to 24 per cent, of the deaths at all ages. | ||||
| The deaths over 65 in each year during the nine years 1903-1911 were:— | ||||
| 1903 | 404 | |||
| 1904 | 508 | |||
| 1905 | 537 | |||
| 1906 | 495 | |||
| 1907 | 510 | |||
| 1908 | 564 | |||
| 1909 | 630 | |||
| 1910 | 510 | |||
| 1911 | 591 | |||