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Chelsea 1926
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1926
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6. To investigate, when required, applications for the supply of milk
free or below cost price.
7. To co-ordinate their efforts with those of the voluntary workers
attached to the Maternity and Child Welfare organizations in the
Borough.
8. To investigate cases under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age
Contributory Pensions Act where the children are under school age.
Work of the Health Visitors. The following tabular statement (Table
No. 42) gives an outline of the work of the Health Visitors and of the
Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers during the years 1925 and
1926. The visits enumerated are those paid by the trained officer of the
Borough Council (one whole-time Health Visitor) and the trained officers
of the Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers (two whole-time
Health Visitors). It does not include work done by voluntary workers
attached to the Society.
TABLE No. 42. Summary of Reports of Health Visitors.
| Number of homes visited (first visits). Infants | 627 | 538 |
| Number of revisits, Infants | 2,227 | 2,323 |
| Number of Infants' attendances at Infant Consultations | 3.878 | 3,489 |
| Number of visits to Children of one year to school age | 330 | 344 |
| Number of revisits to Children of one year to school age | 3,026 | 3,587 |
| Number of children of one year to school age, attendances at Medical Inspections | 2,102 | 1,844 |
| Number of ante-natal visits to Expectant Mothers:— | ||
| Primi-para | 78 | 87 |
| Multi-para | 240 | 208 |
| Revisits | 484 | 443 |
| Total | 802 | 738 |
| Number of 'ante-natal case-attendances at ante-natal clinic | 395 | 369 |
| Number of visits to Diarrhoea cases amongst children | 2 | 40 |
| Number of visits to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 9 |
| General additional visits in connection with the work | 992 | 954 |
| Number of visits re Whooping Cough | — | 67 |
MATERNITY NURSES AND MIDWIVES.
The arrangements made by the Borough Council for the provision of
midwifery attendance have already been outlined in Sec. II. of this
report. In the following Table No. 43 is shown, for the years 1925 and
1926 the number of applications for midwifery attendance, the number