Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1936
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HEALTH VISITORS. The following table shows the work done by the Municipal and Voluntary Centres and Health Visitors during 1936:-
District | Births Notified | Visits to Infants and Children | Visits to Expectant Mothers | Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Other Visits | Attendances at Centres | Health Talks | |||||
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First Visits | Re-visits | ||||||||||||
Under 1 year | 1-5 years | Primary Visits | Revisits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | ||||||
Miss Robson | 96 | 89 | 608 | 1138 | 57 | 134 | – | – | – | – | 762 | 343 | – |
Central Hall | 90 | 80 | 647 | 1174 | 26 | 112 | 2 | 3 | – | – | 768 | 202 | – |
Miss Bowles | 71 | 76 | 515 | 951 | 52 | 124 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 622 | 256 | 8 |
Miss Lawrence | 90 | 79 | 503 | 718 | 30 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 626 | 190 | – |
St. George's Hall | 88 | 100 | 782 | 1265 | 41 | 147 | – | – | – | – | 830 | 161 | 22 |
Miss Riches | 92 | 90 | 556 | 949 | 54 | 126 | – | – | – | – | 558 | 223 | – |
Miss Brown | 113 | 94 | 336 | 807 | 52 | 80 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 635 | 288 | 1 |
Miss Riley | 163 | 175 | 955 | 823 | 96 | 118 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 493 | 206 | – |
Miss Helden | 128 | 102 | 669 | 1023 | 62 | 184 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 800 | 210 | 2 |
Fulford Street | 104 | 98 | 748 | 1000 | 75 | 177 | – | – | 2 | 2 | 478 | 202 | 33 |
Miss Carlton | 110 | 108 | 985 | 1027 | 81 | 145 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 570 | 281 | 23 |
Miss White | 162 | 89 | 714 | 1267 | 71 | 190 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 608 | 353 | 7 |
Miss Wadds | 71 | 127 | 1013 | 1072 | 56 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 458 | 265 | 33 |
Miss Bache | 125 | 123 | 663 | 968 | 85 | 208 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 412 | 292 | – |
Salomon's Centre | 93 | 100 | 851 | 3242 | 539 | 398 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 42 | 357 | 28 |
Totals | 1596 | 1530 | 10545 | 17424 | 1377 | 2362 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 8662 | 3829 | 157 |