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Hampstead 1923

Report for the year 1923 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: The following table gives a record of the work of the Borough Council Health Visitors, who work in conjunction with the Infant Welfare Centres of the Hampstead id Council of Social Welfare, in 1923:—

The following table gives a record of the work of the Borough Council Health Visitors, who work in conjunction with the Infant Welfare Centres of the Hampstead id Council of Social Welfare, in 1923:—

Number of first visits to expectant mothers143
„ re-visits „ „129
„ infants under one year visited the first time941
„ re-visits to infants under one year1590
„ visits to children over one year2178
„ visits re infant deaths51
„ „ infectious disease673
„ „ verminous conditions9
„ verminous conditions reported by London County Council63
„ attendances at Infant Welfare Centres299
„ „ Borough Council's Dental Clinic51
„ „ „ Pre-Maternity Clinics152
„ complaints investigated10
„ applications for assistance investigated138
„ unclassified visits240
Total6667

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Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1919.
The number of families helped at any one time by the Council
during the year under this Order varied from 43 to 73. The cost to
the Borough Council was £309 for milk and £168 for other food.
This figure does not include administration expenses.
The help that has been afforded under the scheme in force for
administering this fund has been of great assistance to poor famlie s
Milk or food is granted either free, or at half cost, to expectant and
nursing mothers and infants under three years of age, where the scale of
income falls below a certain standard.
Infant Welfare Centres.
Established and controlled by the Hampstead Council of Social
Welfare. Held at 5 premises in various parts of the Borough.
Day Nurseries.
Established and controlled privately. Held at 27 & 29, Pond
Street and 36, Hemstal Road.
School Clinics.
School Medical Service, etc., arranged by London County Council.