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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
Hammersmith 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Health Visitors—Visits.
The Health Visitors were engaged, as in former years,
in visits of enquiry to Births, Infant Deaths, cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal Fever, and other diseases
of mothers and young children; they have also taken
an active part in the work of the Voluntary Infant
Welfare Centres.
The visits paid are enumerated in detail below:—
| First visits | 1,873 |
| Re-visits (under 1 year) | 2,690 |
| Re-visits (1 to 5 years) | 2,119 |
| Out | 2,926 |
| Removals | 622 |
| Special visits | 702 |
| Ophthalmia first visits | 12 |
| Ophthalmia re-visits | 11 |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 27 |
| Ante-natal, first visits | 585 |
| Ante-natal, re-visits | 180 |
| Visits to stillbirths | 31 |
| Visits to Infant Deaths | 108 |
| Measles | 16 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 8 |
| Chickenpox | 22 |
| Total | 11,939 |
Number of Consultations at Infant Welfare Centres,
attended by Health Visitors 705
Number of Committee Meetings of Voluntary Associations
attended 10
Number of Insanitary Conditions reported by Health
Visitors and dealt with by Sanitary Inspectors 44