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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

Kensington 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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Table: TABLE V. The Work of the Women Health Officers for the Year 1929.

TABLE V. The Work of the Women Health Officers for the Year 1929.

health officersTotal.
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Child Welfare- First Visits to Infants -258293283330370302851,849
Return Visits to Infants -9135275186091,0651803934,205
Visits to Children between 1 and 5 years1,3951,5301,2741,0477453778747,242
Stillbirth Enquiries -597—162140
Visits to Ophthalmia cases467511—437
Return Visits to Ophthalmia cases -71521552—596
Visits to Measles cases -4618351467799286
Visits to Whooping Cough cases61124104331011152486
Visits to Puerperal Fever cases1——141310
Visits to Puerperal Pyrexia cases -7311107—644
Visits to Enteritis cases422956182729183
Infantile Death Enquiries1633253743331188
Milk Investigations663197761221417423
Ante-Natal Visits -40616212218362131661
Half-days at Welfare Centres1381421481212653891946
Special Visits- -1591442852802382283301,664
Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary.—First Visits20242649301050209
Re-Visits -1891842812722602731821,641
Non-Pulmonary—First Visits -74106211545
Re-Visits115190191753192110858
Rheumatism—
First Visits to cases notified18161215122782
Factories and Workshops Act.
Inspections of Factories430713511—124
Inspections of Workshops521658489554296
Inspections of Outworkers' Premises2962330571317175
Inspections of other Workplaces———2104521
Total Visits3,5453,4403,5933,1103,7931,5562,77421,811
Notices issued under the Public Health Act— Intimation Notices——3—————
Statutory Notices -———————— —
Final Notices————————
Summonses_____—____