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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 1934
[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:—
| District. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | No. 2. | No. 3 | No. 4 | ||
| Number of Births notified | 338 | 628 | 476 | 311 | 1,753 |
| Visits. | |||||
| First visits | 278 | 577 | 436 | 301 | 1,592 |
| Re-visits (under 1 year) | 607 | 751 | 798 | 790 | 2,946 |
| Re-visits (1-5 years) | 847 | 311 | 608 | 688 | 2,454 |
| Out | 728 | 968 | 891 | 913 | 3,500 |
| Removals | 172 | 183 | 230 | 187 | 772 |
| Special visits | 130 | 152 | 90 | 300 | 672 |
| Ophthalmiar-Neonatorum 1st visits | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Ophthalmia ,, Re-visits | — | — | — | 3 | 3 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| Ante-natal—First visits | 185 | 231 | 205 | 135 | 756 |
| Ante-natal—Re-visits | 73 | 33 | 43 | 54 | 203 |
| Stillbirths | 9 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 45 |
| Infant Deaths | 20 | 36 | 32 | 25 | 113 |
| Measles | 60 | 57 | 72 | 93 | 282 |
| Pneumonia | 3 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | 1 | — | 3 | 4 |
| Chickenpox | 14 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 40 |
| Whooping Cough | 13 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 31 |
| Polio-Myelitis | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Total visits | 3,145 | 3,334 | 3,435 | 3,550 | 13,464 |
| Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres | 98 | 101 | 152 | 80 | 431 |
| Attendances at Ante-Natal Clinics | 56 | 51 | 48 | 52 | 207 |
| Attendances at Committee Meetings Voluntary Associations | — | 9 | — | — | 9 |
| Number of insanitary conditions reported | 2 | 7 | 29 | 32 | 70 |