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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 1937
[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 :-
| V isits | Re-visits | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babies (under 1 year) | 1,300 | 10,071 | |||
| Children (1-2 years) | 3 | 4,823 | |||
| „ (2-3 years) | 2 | 8 | 4,001 | 13,874 | |
| „ (3-4 years) | 1 | 3,224 | |||
| „ (4-5 years) | 2 | 1,826 | |||
| Mothers (Ante-Natal) | 755 | 530 | |||
| „ (Post-Natal) | 77 | 176 | |||
| Stillbirths | 28 | 17 | |||
| Infant Deaths | 27 | 9 | |||
| Maternal Deaths | - | 1 | |||
| Puerperal Fever (31) and Pyrexia ( | 14) 25 | 50 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 33 | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | 4 | |||
| Other Notifiable Diseases | - | 1 | |||
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | - | - | |||
| Measles (430), and German Measles (45) | 191 | 284 | |||
| Whooping Cough | 298 | 562 | |||
| Other Non-Notifiable Diseases | 16 | 26 | |||
| Milk Grants | - | - | |||
| Convalescent Treatment | 3 | - | |||
| Other matters | 611 | 270 | |||
| Total Visits | 3,350 | 25,908 | |||
| Grand Total 2 | 9,258 | ||||
In addition, 76 visits and 2,102 re-visits were
rendered futile owing to the absence of the mother or
the occasion being inconvenient for an interview.