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Battersea 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough.
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Facilities arc granted by the Council to students of recognised
Training Bodies for practical instruction and training as Health
Visitors and Women Sanitary Inspectors. During the year a
number of students from the Hygiene Department, Battersea
Polytechnic, received a course of training under the Council's
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
The work carried out during 1929 by the Council's Health
Visitors and those of the voluntary organisations included in the
Borough Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme is summarised in
the following table :—
The work carried out during 1929 by the Council's Health Visitors and those of the voluntary organisations included in the Brough Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme is summarised in the following table:-
| C'cl. | Vol. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits to Expectant Mothers | 2,228 | 372 | 2,600 |
| Visits to Notified Births | 8,287 | 1,455 | 9,742 |
| Visits to Still Births | 60 | 11 | 71 |
| Visits to children aged 1-5 years | 3,640 | 2,049 | 5,689 |
| Visits to enquire into Infant Deaths | 159 | 40 | 199 |
| Visits to cases of Notifiable Infectious Disease | 4,076 | 488 | 4,564 |
| Visits to cases of Non-Notifiable Disease | 358 | 148 | 506 |
| Visits re prevention of Diphtheria | 444 | 13 | 457 |
| Visits re Summer Diarrhoea | 299 | 299 | |
| Visits to Dental Cases | 129 | 15 | 144 |
| Visits to V.D. Cases | 22 | — | 22 |
| Other Visits | 1,178 | 657 | 1,835 |
| 20,581 | 5,547 | 26,128 |
St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel.
The arrangements temporarily made in 1926 with St. Thomas's
Cornwall Babies' Hostel, with the sanction of the Ministry of Health,
for the provision of facilities for cases sent from the Borough
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics for test feeding and the encouragement
of breast feeding amongst Battersea mothers, were
continued during 1929.
The results of the year's work have been satisfactory and are
summarised below:—
A. Test Feeds.
Number of cases, 173, comprising : Mothers, 173;
babies, 176. Number of attendances, 406. (199
mothers and 207 babies).
8 of these cases received in-patient treatment.
* These visits, having been made in conjunction with visits on other matters
already enumerated, are not included in the total.