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Total number of Chelsea births registered in the Borough, 862.
The notifications, therefore, formed 93 per cent. of the total births of
Chelsea residents registered in the Borough, as compared with 91 per cent.
in each of the years 1915, 1916.
The number of births notified by midwives was 43 per cent. of the
total, as compared with 42 per cent. in 1916.
Deaths, Death-Rates and Disease Prevalence.
There were 896 deaths of Chelsea residents in 1917, the death-rate
being 14.2 per 1,000, as against 15.1 in 1916, and 17.5 in 1915.
There were 77 deaths of infants under one year of age, equivalent to
an infant mortality rate of 82 per 1,000 births. In 1916, the rate was 91,
in 1915, 100, and in 1914, 67.
At the end of 1916 a whole-time Health Visitor was appointed by
the Borough Council, and during the year the maternity and child welfare
work of the Borough has been carried on conjointly by the two women
officials of the Borough Council, and by the Chelsea Health Society, the
periodical reports of the paid officer of that Society being laid before the
Public Health Committee with the reports of the Council's officers. The
two weekly Infant Consultations and clinics and the weekly ante-natal
clinic are held at 49, Sydney-street—the premises of the Chelsea Health
Society—and are attended by the Council's Health Visitors. The coordination
of the work of the Chelsea Health Society with that of
the Borough Council in Maternity and Child Welfare directions has been
attended with success, and has been of undoubted advantage to the
Borough.
The following Tabular statement gives an outline of the work
carried on in Chelsea during 1917, the visits being those paid by the trained
and paid workers of the Borough Council and Chelsea Health Society, and
does not include visits by voluntary workers attached to the Society:—
Summary of Reports of Health Visitors for 1917.
Number of homes visited (first visits), Infants 599
Number of re-visits, Infants 1637
Number of infants' attendances at Infant Consultations
1164
Number of visits to children of 1 year to school
age 806
Number of re-visits 1280
Number of children of 1 year to school age
attendances at medical inspection centre 541
Number of Ante-natal visits to expectant mothers 449
Number of Ante-natal cases attendances at Antenatal
clinic 209
Number of visits to Diarrhoea cases amongst
Infants 126
Number of visits to cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum 71
General additional visits in connection with the
work 1147