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Miss Miles has carried out the duties of Health Visitor,
making the necessary visitations under the above Act, and also
has dealt with the cases of Diarrhoea occurring in her districts.
There has been a slight rise in the Infantile Mortality in
Charlton and West Greenwich, St. Nicholas and East Greenwich
have improved
St. Nicholas suffered heavily last year under the abnormal
conditions caused by the< alteration of the Foreign Cattle Market,
Deiptford, into a barracks. The extra traffic, combined with
disturbance of scavenging, and possibly delay in delivery of milk
from the conditions which resulted from the outbreak of War, were
quite sufficient to account for the increased fatality in this district
from Infantile Diarrhoea. With the transfer of this barracks to
Blackheath, St. Nicholas has shown an improved Infantile Mortality
Rate and an improvement in Diarrhoea Mortality and Notifications
also.
Visits paid in reference to Births 891
Re-visits made 260
Visits paid in reference to Notified Cases of
Diarrhoea 246
Re-visits made in reference to Cases of Diarrhœa 83
Miscellaneous enquiries and extra visits paid by
special request 59
1,539
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The Infantile Mortality, measured by the deaths of children
under one year of age to the number of births registered, was 101
per 1,000 births, there having been a total of 238 such deaths
during the year, as compared with 200, 263 and 235, the figures
for the three preceding years. The number for the County of
London was 104 per 1,000 births, the average for the past five
years in Greenwich has been 105 per 1,000 births.