Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925
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Summary of Visiting Work Carried out by Council's Visiting Staff and Voluntary Organisations included in the Borough Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme from 1921 to 1925.
Health Visitors. | 1921. | 1922. | 1923. | 1924. | 1925. | Mean (1921-25). | ||||||||||||
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C'c'l. | Vol. | Total | C'c'l. | Vol. | Total | C'c'l. | Vol. | Total | C'c'l. | Vol. | Total | C'c'l. | Vol. | Total | C'c'l. | Vol. | Total | |
Visits to Expectant Mothers | 1,733 | 418 | 2,151 | 1,363 | 297 | 1,660 | 1,611 | 304 | 1,915 | 1,754 | 612 | 2,366 | 1,843 | 579 | 2 422 | 1,661 | 442 | 2,103 |
Visits to Notified Births | 6,378 | 2,460 | 8,838 | 6,025 | 1,660 | 7,685 | 8,016 | 1,350 | 9,366 | 8,383 | 1,215 | 9,598 | 8,565 | 1,249 | 9,814 | 7,473 | 1,587 | 9,060 |
Visits to Still Births | 22 | — | 22 | 33 | — | 33 | 60 | 4 | 64 | 88 | 18 | 106 | 83 | 11 | 94 | 57 | 7 | 64 |
Visits to children aged 1-5 years | 1,049 | 827 | 1,876 | 942 | 1,117 | 2,059 | 1,394 | 1,459 | 2,853 | 2,539 | 1,447 | 3,986 | 2,775 | 1,438 | 4,213 | 1,740 | 1,258 | 2,998 |
Visits to enquire into Infant Deaths | 252 | 69 | 321 | 174 | 30 | 204 | 117 | 32 | 149 | 205 | 24 | 229 | 164 | 33 | 197 | 182 | 38 | 220 |
Visits to cases of Notifiable Infec-tious Disease | 2,231 | 35 | 2,266 | 5,611 | 712 | 6,323 | 5,074 | 354 | 5,428 | 5,060 | 589 | 5,649 | 4,367 | 318 | 4,685 | 4,469 | 401 | 4,870 |
Visits to cases of Non-Notifiable In-fectious Disease | 1,901 | 308 | 2,209 | 660 | 129 | 789 | 552 | 104 | 656 | 528 | 101 | 629 | 626 | 132 | 758 | 853 | 155 | 1,008 |
Visits re Summer Diarrhœa | 1,243 | 721 | 1,964 | 1,847 | 652 | 2,499 | 1,713 | 400 | 2,113 | 1,361 | 655 | 2,016 | 471 | 243 | 714 | 1,327 | 534 | 1,861 |
Visits to Dental Cases | 282 | — | 282 | 276 | — | 276 | 322 | 33 | 355 | 320 | 25 | 345 | 260 | 14 | 274 | 292 | 14 | 306 |
Visits to V.D. Cases | 31 | — | 31 | 145 | — | 145 | 191 | — | 191 | 211 | — | 211 | 159 | — | 159 | 148 | — | 148 |
Other Visits | 760 | — | 760 | 949 | 83 | 1,032 | 785 | 229 | 1,014 | 1,311 | 819 | 2,130 | 1,061 | 650 | 1,711 | 973 | 356 | 1,329 |
Totals | 15,882 | 4,838 | 20,720 | 18,025 | 4,680 | 22,705 | 19,835 | 4,269 | 24,104 | 21,760 | 5,505 | 27,265 | 20,374 | 4,667 | 25,041 | 19,175 | 4,792 | 23,967 |