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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

Greenwich 1918

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1918

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NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
Date of adoption — l7March, 1909.
Misses Millington, Chitty and Reid have carried out the duties
of Health Visitors, making the necessary visitations under the
above Act, and also have dealt with the cases of Diarrhoea occurring
in their districts.

Table: There has been a rise in the Infantile Mortality in West Greenwich, St. Nicholas, Charlton and Kidbrooke, whilst East Greenwich lias improved in that respect.

There has been a rise in the Infantile Mortality in West Greenwich, St. Nicholas, Charlton and Kidbrooke, whilst East Greenwich lias improved in that respect.

Visits paid in reference to Births1,514
Re-visits made1,181
Visits paid in reference to Notified Cases of Diarrhœa149
Re-visits made in reference to Cases of Diarrhœa114
Visits paid in reference to Cases of Measles93
„ „ „ Whooping Cough53
„ „ „ Ophthalmia Neonatorum23
Re-visits „ „ „34
Visits paid in reference to Scabies Cases65
„ „ Verminous Cases37
„ „ Ante-Natal „51
Miscellaneous enquiries and extra visits paid by special request296
Consultations attended139
3,749

Table: The following table gives the number and character of the intimations respecting births in the Borough:—

The following table gives the number and character of the intimations respecting births in the Borough:—

1911.1912.1913.191419151916.1917.1918.
Total Number of Births notified in each year since adoption2,5532,4502,6232,5132,2802,4971,9921,735
(a) Attended by Midwives1,2821,4121,3401,3381,2261,3141,095990
(b) Attended by-Doctors1,27110381,2831,1751,0541,183897745
Number of Still Births notified in each year2471533642614744
Number of Births registered in each year2,3812,3932,5452,4092,3472,3541,9671,753