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Hospital, 50 by medical practitioners, and 23 by
parents and others.
Through the courtesy of neighbouring Medical
Officers of Health I also received copies of notifications
of births of Bethnal Green babies which took
place outside the Borough, information as to 532
live babies and 23 stillbirths being received in this
way.
The net total of notified live births belonging to
the Borough was thus 1,462.
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)
1,458
12,012
Children (1—2 years)
7
5,021
,, (2—8 years)
2
4,857
,, (3—4 years)
5
17 3,107
15,592
,, (4—5 years)
3
2,607.
Mothers (Ante-Natal)
1,120
775
,, (Post-Natal)
128
460
Stillbirths
36
62
Visits
Re-visits
Infant Deaths
18
6
Maternal Deaths
—
—
Puerperal Fever (21) and Pyrexia (38)
19
40
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
7
18
Acute Poliomyelitis
—
5
Other Notifiable Diseases
1
2
Diarrhoea and Enteritis
1
—
Measles (83), and German Measles (12)
46
49
Whooping Cough
210
490
Other Non-Notifiable Diseases
7
35
Milk Grants
3
4
Convalescent Treatment
2
6
Other matters
56
269
Total Visits
3,135
29,825
Grand Total 32,960