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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
Bethnal Green 1924
Special report on an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the Borough of Bethnal Green in 1924
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SUMMARY OF VISITS PAID BY HEALTH VISITORS.
| 1923. | 1924. | |
| Births (first visits) | 2,918 | 2,650 |
| Births (re-visits) | 16,628 | 20,507 |
| Visits to mothers | 1,577 | 1,435 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 149 | 223 |
| Puerperal Fever | 48 | 21 |
| Measles | 1,110 | 1,029 |
| Special Matters | 450 | 242 |
| Futile Visits | 2,377 | 2,847 |
| Milk Grant Enquiries | 1,141 | 828 |
| Total visits paid | 26,398 | 29,782 |
Of the 20,507 re-visits, 235 were to children under
1, and 20,272 to children between 1 and 5.
NUESING ASSISTANCE.
Up to the limits permissible by law, a very complete
scheme of home nursing is now in operation.
Such nursing is carried out by the mediation of a
voluntary organisation, the Shoreditch and Bethnal
Green Nursing Association. For each visit a charge
of tenpence is made to the Council by the Association.
As regards children under the age of five years, the
Ministry of Health have sanctioned expenditure on
the nursing of all sick cases, but grant is only paid by
the Ministry in respect of certain specified conditions,
e.g., Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum and Poliomyelitis, which come within
the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.