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

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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

Hammersmith 1923

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1923

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Table: The visits paid are enumerated in detail below :—

The visits paid are enumerated in detail below :—

First visits2,357
Re-visits (under 1 year)1,814
Re-visits (1 to 5 years)1,110
Out and removals2,037
Special visits309
Ophthalmia44
Pneumonia5
Puerperal Fever12
Ante-natal, first visits333
Ante-natal, re-visits31
Visits to Stillbirths49
Visits to Infant Deaths134
Total8,235

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Number of Consultations at Infant Welfare Centres,
attended by Health Visitors 436
Number of Committee Meetings of Voluntary Associations
attended 55
Number of Insanitary Conditions reported by Health
Visitors and dealt with by Sanitary Inspectors 34
The feeding of the 2,357 infants visited was found to be as
follows :—
Breast-feeding 2,119
Artificial feeding 158
Mixed feeding 80
Every effort is made by the Health Visitors to encourage
mothers to breast-feed their infants, and also to induce them to
attend the Consultations at the Infant Welfare Centres, so that
both mother and child may be kept under observation during
the most critical months of the child's life.
The following table gives the number of births and
deaths of infants and the rate per 1,000 births during the
past 18 years, the year of the appointment of the first Health
Visitor:—