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Hammersmith 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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104
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.

Table: The visits paid are enumerated in detail below:—

The visits paid are enumerated in detail below:—

District.Total.
No. 1.No. 2.No. 3.No. 4.
Number of Births notified3626115103691,852
Visits. First visits3095844753571,725
Re-visits (under 1 year)3483855236551,911
Re-visits (1-5 years)4332602794201,392
Out4597066375832,385
Removals78100120106404
Special visits9210594285576
Ophthalmia—First visits210—214
Ophthalmia—Re-visits1———1
Puerperal Fever1——12
Puerperal Pyrexia177318
Ante-natal—First visits14416418099587
Ante-natal—Revisits57183344152
Stillbirths131012742
Infant Deaths2635172098
Measles738712991380
Pneumonia121561346
Encephalitis Lethargica—1——1
Chickenpox55371075
Whooping Cough31021833
Total visits2,1072,5002,5212,7149,842
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres143150196156645
Attendances at Committee Meetings Voluntary Associations—9——9
Number of insanitary conditions reported44191946