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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
Poplar 1919
Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow
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Bow Maternity Clinics.
| Ante-Natal:— | |
| Expectant mothers (first attendance) | 38 |
| „ ,, (total attendances) | 67 |
| Potential mothers (first attendance) | 63 |
| „ „ (total attendances) | 171 |
| Total attendance at Ante-Natal Clinic | 339 |
| Infants:— | |
| First attendance | 400 |
| Total attendances | 3,443 |
| Average weekly attendance | 67.9 |
| Average attendance each child | 5.8 |
| Treatment:— | |
| Minor ailments (first attendance) | 136 |
| ,, „ (total attendances) | 271 |
| Vouchers issued (cod liver oil, etc.) | 1,386 |
| Galactagogue | 71 pkts. |
| Sugar | 17 J lbs. |
| Dried milk | 4,110 lbs. |
| Spectacles, bandages, etc | 23 |
| Cows' milk, free | 5,824 pints. |
| Money taken | £392 12 2 |
| Free issue | £16 11 6 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | |
| Number of notifications received | 61 |
| Sight of one eye destroyed | 1 |
| Recovered ... | 60 |
| Occurred in the practice of medical practitioners | 12 |
| Occurred in the practice of midwives | 49 |
| Admitted to hospital as in-patients | 10 |
| Treated as hospital out-patients | 12 |
| Treated privately | 39 |
| Visited by a nurse | 16 |
| Zymotic Enteritis. | |
| Visited | 498 |
| Failed to trace | 3 |
| Under 1 year | 146 |
| 1 to 2 years | 204 |
| 2 to 3 years | 86 |
| 3 to 4 years | 39 |
| 4 to 5 years | 20 |