London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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| Description of work. | Health officers. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | * No. 8 | Total. | |
| First visits to infants (0-1 year) | 354 | 196 | 251 | 314 | 279 | 71 | 167 | 16 | 1,648 |
| Re-visits to infants (0-1 year) | 487 | 458 | 720 | 742 | 749 | 171 | 471 | 32 | 3,830 |
| Visits to children between 1 and 5 years | 1,048 | 976 | 1,087 | 781 | 791 | 497 | 945 | 111 | 6,236 |
| Still-birth enquiries | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 8 | — | 48 |
| Visits to ophthalmia cases | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 1 | — | — | 27 |
| Return visits to ophthalmia cases | 6 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 49 | 8 | — | — | 82 |
| Visits to measles cases | 256 | 241 | 294 | 92 | 365 | 220 | 95 | 1 | 1,574 |
| Visits to whooping cough cases | 44 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 108 | 64 | 37 | — | 304 |
| Visits to puerperal fever cases | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 7 |
| Visits to puerperal pyrexia cases | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | 2 | — | 20 |
| Visits to enteritis cases | 40 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 3 | — | 3 | 79 |
| Infantile death enquiries | 35 | 20 | 15 | 34 | 27 | 18 | 20 | 3 | 172 |
| Investigations re milk applications | 523 | 141 | 250 | 389 | 262 | 85 | 36 | 35 | 1,721 |
| Ante-natal visits | 178 | 133 | 179 | 149 | 99 | 172 | 222 | 14 | 1,146 |
| Half-days at welfare centres | 181 | 146 | 137 | 128 | 165 | 89 | 121 | 22 | 989 |
| Special visits | 489 | 349 | 302 | 348 | 157 | 432 | 388 | 33 | 2,498 |
* This officer also acts as infant life protection visitor.
The visiting in connection with tuberculosis and factories and workshops is dealt with in the
sections of this report dealing with those subjects, and a complete record of the work performed
by each woman health officer during the year appears in Table V of Appendix II.