View report page

3
Health Visitors.—The Health Visitors visit infants notified under the Notification of Births
Act, cases of ophthalmia in the newly born, infants suffering from tuberculosis and notified cases
of puerperal fever. They assist in the work of the voluntary schools for mothers. During the year
2,324 infants were visited shortly after birth and 7,740 visits in all for the purposes mentioned
above and enquiries into the large number of cases of measles notified during the year.

The age period of cases notified and ward distribution will be found in Table II., Appendix,
and age period of deaths in Table III., Appendix.
Diarrhœa.—71 deaths were registered as due to Diarrhœa or Enteritis, 48 of which occurred
during the first year of life.
Small Pox.—No case of Small Pox occurred either in the Borough or London during the
year.
Puerperal Fever.—Only two cases were notified during the year, the average annual
number being ten. There was only one death.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Nineteen cases of ophthalmia in newly born infants were
notified during the year.
Tuberculosis.—Four hundred and forty-five persons were notified for the first time as
suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs; and 98 as suffering from other forms of tuberculosis.
The following tables set out the Deaths from Tuberculosis and Death Rates per 1,000 of the
population, Deaths from Tuberculosis in Wards, and Forms of Tuberculosis in persons notified:—