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Hammersmith 1933

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

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110
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 notified Visits.3476405203031,810
First visits3256154552891,684
Re-visits (under 1 year)5905135567502,409
Re-visits (1-5 years)6673985816982,344
Out5448468148753,079
Removals107280243189819
Special visits7014894297609
Ophthalmia-Neonatorum 1st visits242210
Ophthalmia- „ Re-visits———22
Puerperal Fever13217
Puerperal Pyrexia733518
Ante-natal—First visits129213187117646
Ante-natal—Re-visits64234329159
Stillbirths81424450
Infant Deaths8502919106
Measles——112
Pneumonia6——28
Encephalitis Lethargica———11
Chickenpox——123
Whooping Cough131510
Polio-Myelitis——123
Total visits2,5293,1133,0373,29011,969
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres149150202154655
Attendances at Committee Meetings Voluntary Associations-9——9
Number of insanitary conditions reported1791532