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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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SUMMARY OF VISITS BY MUNICIPAL HEALTH VISITORS—Continued.
| District | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Totals. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis of Visits included in I.-IX. relating to | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) fOphthalmia Neonatorum | f/19 47 | f/18 54 | f/ll 21 | f/3 4 | f/10 17 | f/19 25 | f/9 20 | F/3 11 | f/92 199 | |||||||||||
| (6) {Epidemic (Summer) Diarrhoea | f/3 6 | f 2 | — | f/2 | f 7 | — | — | f 2 | f/16 19 | |||||||||||
| (c) Other Digestive Diseases | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 7 | 1 | 24 | |||||||||||
| 30 | 40 | 10 | 19 | 40 | — | 26 | 2 | 167 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 68 | 26 | 60 | 105 | 99 | 161 | 4 | 524 | ||||||||||||
| f/38 51 | f/55 58 | f/44 | f/8 | F 14 | f/5 | f/6 | — | f/170 186 | ||||||||||||
| (g) †Whooping Cough | f/12 31 | f 14 | f/28 29 | f/11 | f/14 19 | f/2 | F, 14 | f/7 | f/101 127 | |||||||||||
| 1 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| (i) Convulsions | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | |||||||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 59 | 39 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 25 | — | 170 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 42 | — | — | 1 | 75 | ||||||||||||
| (m) All other investigations (**Specify) | 62 | 66 | 89 | 93 | 57 | 23 | 74 | 9 | 473 | |||||||||||
| (n) Routine Visits included in I. to IX. and not included in (a) to (m) | 3,766 | 3,353 | 3,790 | 2,873 | 4,547 | 3,907 | 2,816 | 1,139 | 26,191 | |||||||||||
| ***Totals (a) to (n) | 4,001 | 3,742 | 4,062 | 3,090 | 4,869 | 4,072 | 3,146 | 1,177 | 28,162 | |||||||||||
| Total Families Visited | 2,429 | 2,665 | 2,719 | 2,114 | 3,158 | 3,255 | 2,244 | 830 | 19,414 | |||||||||||
| Registered Births. | New Cases Handed to Infant H.V.'s for Visitation. Mortality. | Puerperal Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorium, | ||||||||||||||||
| No. | Rate. | Notified Births. | Non-Notified Births. | Transfers In. | No. | Rate. | Cases. | Removals | Cases. | Removals. | Cases. | Removals. | ||||||||
| 6455 | 19.0 | 5930 | 438 | 306 | 427 | 66 | 32 | 28 | 27 | 17 | 107 | 14 | ||||||||
**e.g.—Infectious Diseases other than Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic Diarrhoea, Polio-myelitis, etc. Syphilis, Rheumatism, N.N.B. Illegit, etc.
***Totals (a) to (n) should correspond with Totals I. to IX.
†F. in front of figures denotes a "First Visit."
[1926