Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1927
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an isolation ward to which cases which are possibly
infectious may be transferred from the wards when
necessary.
The minimum fee is £3 for the fortnight, during
which patients are treated in the home. The highest
fee charged during 1927 was £9 2s., for the fortnight,
and the average fee was £4 5s. The net cost per patient
to the Council for the financial year 1927-28 was
£2 6s. 8d., equivalent to £1 3s. 4d. per week.
The following is a record of cases admitted to the Home during the year 1927:—
Cases admitted | 188 |
Average duration of stay (days) | 14 |
Number of cases delivered by:— | |
179 | |
9 | |
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis | _ |
Number of cases notified as puerperal pyrexia | 3 |
Number of cases in which the temperature was above 100.4 for 24 hours | 3 |
Number of cases notified as ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 |
Number of cases of inflammation of eyes, however slight | 3 |
Number of infants not entirely breastfed while in the institution | _ |
Number of maternal deaths | – |
Number of foetal deaths (stillborn or within ten days of birth) | 1 |
Fulham Babies' Hospital, 23, Broomhouse Road,
S.W. 6.—This institution, which was opened in 1916
at 706, Fulham Road and transferred to Broomhouse
Road in 1919, has accommodation for twenty-one
children under 5 years of age. It is under the control
of a Voluntary Committee.
Fourteen beds are reserved for Fulham children and
the Fulham Borough Council give a grant of £700 per