Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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In 103 cases visits were not made for the following reasons: —
Infants died before visit due | 19 |
Infants died before information of birth received | 10 |
Above the standard for visitation | 74 |
103 |
The visits paid to the homes by the Health Visitors during the year were as follows:—
First Visits. | Revisits. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|
Expectant Mothers | 85 | 145 | 230 |
Children under 1 year of age | 502 | 1,707 | 2,209 |
Children 1 to 2 years of age | 6 | 501 | 507 |
Children over 2 years of age | 11 | 712 | 723 |
Enquiries re stillbirths | 12 | ||
12 | |||
Other visits | 169 |
In addition 323 visits were made by Student Health Visitors.
Four hundred and twenty visits related to infants who came under further
observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres, of these five died
before reasonably old enough to attend an Infant Welfare Centre, and 35 removed
from the Borough before the age of one month or did not return to the Borough
after the birth of the child, leaving 380 infants as possible attendants at a
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre; of this number 249 were recorded as
attending a Centre, i.e., 66 per cent.
The Centres attended were the following: —
192 attended the Council's M. & C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
23 „ ,, Short's Gardens.
7 attended the Centre at Onslow Street School, Saffron Hill.
1 ,, ,, Charing Cross Hospital.
6 ,, ,, Myddelton Square.
9 ,, ,, Middlesex Hospital.
3 ,, ,, University College Hospital.
5 ,, ,, Royal Free Hospital.
3 ,, ,, Other Centres.
249 attended an Infant Welfare Centre.
Thus more than one-half of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre,
and of these well over four-fifths attended the Council's Centres.
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