London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hackney 1916

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1916

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(2) The confinement of sick women, including women
having contracted pelvis or suffering from any
other condition involving danger to the mother
or infant, at a hospital.
4. Arrangements for:—
Post-natal.
(1) The treatment in a hospital of complications
arising after parturition, whether in the mother
or in the infant.
(2) The provision of systematic advice and treatment
for infants at a Baby Clinic or Infant Dispensary.
(3) The continuance of these Clinics and Dispensaries,
so as to be available for children up to the age
when they are entered on a school register, i.e., the
the register of a public elementary school, nursery
school, creche, day nursery, school for mothers or
other school.
(4) The systematic home visitation of infants and of
children not on a school register as above defined.