Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford page 104

Deptford 1927

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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In addition to the above visits, the Health Visitors spent in all 581
afternoons at sessions of the Infant Welfare Centres and 151 mornings
at sessions of the Ante-Natal or Special Clinic; 6 attendances were also
made at Dental Clinics, and 31 at Schick test and inoculation sessions.
193 "Test Feeds" were conducted at the Town Hall.
Feeding.—In the 1,907 births visited it was found that 1,762
infants were being breast fed and 50 partly breast fed. Only 95 were
entirely hand fed.

Table: Births Notified, Year 1927.

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Births Notified, Year 1927.

Ward	Births Notified.			Alive.	Dead.	Parent.	By whom Notified.
Ward	Total.	Male	Female.	Alive.	Dead.	Parent.	Doctor.	Midwife	Other Person.
Canterbury	144	70	74	142	2	12	58	74	–
Clifton	129	61	68	127	2	8	27	94	–
Deptford Park	122	68	54	120	2	6	59	56	1
Evelyn	166	88	78	161	5	15	55	95	1
Hatcham	100	54	46	98	2	13	29	58	–
Pepys	71	33	38	70	1	12	34	25	–
St. Catherine's	51	22	29	51	–	10	18	21	2
St. lohn's	84	40	44	81	3	18	23	43	–
St. Paul's	244	118	126	238	6	9	16	218	1
St. Peter's	333	164	169	328	5	16	19	294	4
Town Hall	113	53	60	109	4	11	38	64	–
Vale	174	93	81	166	8	13	46	114	1
	1731	864	867	1691	40	143	422	1156	10

Table: Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 8,164 applications were received and were dealt with as follows:—

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Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 8,164 applications were received and were dealt with as follows:—

Granted free	7311
„ at half-price	835
Refused (over scale)	18
	8,164

Table: Dried Milk, Virol, &c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1927 and previous years.

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Dried Milk, Virol, &c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1927 and previous years.

	1927	1926	1925	1924
Ambrosia	3,356 1 lb. packets	3,158	3,195	2,656
Cow and Gate	2,105 „	1,581	1,903	1,897
Glaxo	730 „	1,108	1,356	2,819
Lactogal	70 tins	93	69	68
Lacta	– 1 lb. packets	–	–	29
Trufood	583 1 lb. tins	392	191	188
Recolac	– „	–	36	9
Virol	12 28 lb. tins	24	28	36

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Table: Births Notified, Year 1927.

Table: Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 8,164 applications were received and were dealt with as follows:—

Table: Dried Milk, Virol, &c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1927 and previous years.

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Table: Births Notified, Year 1927.

Table: Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children. During the year 8,164 applications were received and were dealt with as follows:—

Table: Dried Milk, Virol, &amp;c. The following amounts of dried milk, &amp;c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1927 and previous years.

Table: Dried Milk, Virol, &c. The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1927 and previous years.