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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
Hampstead 1922
Report for the year 1922 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The 4 cases of contracted pelvis were referred to suitable Hospitals
for in-patient treatment during their confinement and were all satisfactorily
delivered. The case of appendicitis was referred to the
Hampstead General Hospital for examination ; the mother gave birth
to a healthy child a few months after the operation.
All the new cases were carefully inquired into, and 15 women who
were suspected of being infected with venereal diseases were suitably
dealt with. Although six had had children in whom symptoms of
ophthalmia neonatorum appeared, none of the 15 cases has given birth
to an infant who has been notified as suffering from ophthalmia.
The following table gives a record of the work of the Borough Council Health Visitors, who work in connection with the Infant Welfare Centres of the Hampstead Council of Social Welfare, in 1922:—
| Number of first visits to expectant mothers | 150 |
| re-visits „ „ | 150 |
| „ first visits to infants under one year | 1021 |
| „ re-visits „ | 1442 |
| „ visits to children over one year | 1418 |
| „ visits re infant deaths | 96 |
| „ infectious disease | 1597 |
| „ „ verminous conditions | 1 |
| „ „ verminous conditions reported by London County Council | 80 |
| „ attendances at Infant Welfare Centres | 300 |
| „ „ Borough Council's Dental Clinic | 56 |
| „ „ „ Pre-Maternity Clinics | 152 |
| „ complaints investigated | 22 |
| „ applications for assistance investigated | 112 |
| „ unclassified visits | 231 |
| Total | 6828 |
Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1919.
The number of families being helped by the Council during the
year under this Order varied from 32 to 61. The cost to the Borough
Council was £190 for milk and £120 for other food.
The help that has been afforded under the scheme in force for
administering this fund has been of great assistance to poor families,