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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
Chelsea 1928
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1928
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3. To visit and give advice to parents in cases of ophthalmia,
zymotic enteritis and other diseases causing deaths amongst infants.
4. To visit and report upon all cases of puerperal fever.
5. To investigate, when required, homes in which overcrowding
is alleged to exist.
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 past
two years. 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 (three
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.
| 1927. | 1928. | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of homes visited (first visits), Infants | 624 | 568 |
| Number of revisits, Infants | 2,427 | 2,452 |
| Number of Infants' attendances at Infant Consultations | 3,470 | 3,733 |
| Number of visits to Children of one year to school age | 379 | 390 |
| Number of revisits to Children of one year to school age | 3,296 | 2,987 |
| Number of children of one year to school age, attendances at Medical Inspections | 1,906 | 1,933 |
| Number of ante-natal visits to Expectant Mothers:— | ||
| Primi-para | 82 | 95 |
| Multi-para | 206 | 201 |
| Revisits | 488 | 489 |
| Total | 776 | 785 |
| Number of ante-natal case-attendances at ante-natal clinic | 428 | 318 |
| Number of visits to Diarrhœa cases amongst children | 5 | 25 |
| Number of visits to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 27 | 36 |
| General additional visits in connection with the work | 813 | 759 |
| Number of visits re Whooping Cough | 83 | 60 |
MATERNITY NURSES AND MIDWIVES.
The arrangement made by the Borough Council for the provision of
midwifery attendance have already been outlined in Sec. II of this