Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915
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WORK OF WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS
AND HEALTH VISITOR.
The following is a summary of investigations or inspections carried out by the Women Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitor during 1915 :—
Miss Jones. | Miss Barke. | Miss Watson. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 | l | - | 10 | |
„ School Notifications | 80 | 44 | 213 | 287 |
„ Measles | 83 | 187 | 54 | 324 |
„ Measles deaths | 9 | 4 | — | 13 |
„ Chicken-pox | — | 3 | — | 3 |
„ Puerperal fever | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
„ Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
„ Polio-Myelitis | 2 | — | — | 2 |
„ Birth notifications | 725 | 417 | 447 | 1589 |
„ Re-visits to „ | 116 | 43 | 276 | 435 |
,, Infant mortality | 48 | 18 | 28 | 94 |
On complaint | 21 | 13 | — | 34 |
To Factories | 8 | 10 | — | 18 |
„ Workshops | 340 | 93 | — | 433 |
„ Workplaces | 20 | 7 | — | 27 |
„ Laundries | 94 | 25 | — | 119 |
„ Outworkers' homes | 373 | 52 | — | 425 |
Re-visits and re-inspections | 230 | 72 | — | 302 |
Miscellaneous visits | 37 | 31 | 19 | 87 |
Total | 2155 | 1028 | 1044 | 4227 |
Nuisances found | 91 | 45 | 136 | |
Intimations served | 58 | 41 | — | 99 |
Statutory notices served | 4 | 11 | — | 15 |
Abstract not affixed | 11 | 7 | — | 18 |
Overcrowded workrooms | 1 | 2 | — | 3 |