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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
Bethnal Green 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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WORK OF HEALTH VISITORS.
The following table gives some account of the outdoor work of the Health Visitors so far as this can be expressed in statistics:—
| Visits. | Re-visits. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babies (under 1 year) | 1.949 | 11,941 | ||
| Children (1—2 years) | 12 | 4,600 | ||
| „ (2—3 years) | 3 | 27 | 4,037 | 14,004 |
| ,, (3—4 years) | 5 | 2,8651 | ||
| „ (4—6 years) | 7 | 2,502 | ||
| Mothers (Ante-natal) | 915 | 410 | ||
| „ (Post-natal) | 20 | 16 | ||
| Stillbirths | 42 | 58 | ||
| Visits. | Re-visits. | |||
| Infant Deaths | 102 | 16 | ||
| Maternal Deaths | 3 | 1 | ||
| Puerperal Fever (22) and Pyrexia (26) | 14 | 34 | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 19 | 60 | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | ||
| Other Notifiable Diseases | 15 | 29 | ||
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 5 | 19 | ||
| Measles (2,672), and German. Measles (3) | 1,577 | l,098 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 20 | 45 | ||
| Other Non-notifiable Diseases | 31 | 40 | ||
| Milk Grants | 11 | 1,103 | ||
| Convalescent Treatment | 9 | 7 | ||
| Other matters | 198 | 281 | ||
| Futile Visits | 150 | 2,459 | ||
| Total Visits. | 5,107 | 31,622 | ||
| Grand Total | 36,729 | |||
The Council is able, through the Health Visitors, to
render considerable assistance to the London Hospital
Maternity Charity by reporting on the home conditions
and preparations of expectant mothers who have booked
with that hospital for midwifery services. Liaison
also exists with the L.C.C. School Medical Service,
our child welfare record cards being transferred to the
Divisional Medical Officer as the children attain the
age of 5.