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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 1935

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

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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.3126777563712,110
First visits3125654353581,670
Re.visits (under 1 year)8809001,0789443,802
Re.visits (1.5 years)6003204576472,024
Out7381,1268441,0333,741
Removals142138205206691
Special visits19117632292691
Ophthalmia.Neonatoium 1st visits31——4
Ophthalmia. „ Re.visits—.————
Puerperal Fever——2—2
Puerperal Pyrexia226414
Ante.natal—First visits125254156168703
Ante.natal—Re.visits93404061234
Stillbirths1022101456
Infant Deaths18313220101
Measles1——12
Pneumonia1——34
Encephalitis Lethargica—11—2
Chickenpox1—146
Whooping Cough1397938
Polio.Myelitis——1—1
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis
Epidemic Diarrhcea11—24
Total visits3,1313,5863,3073,76613,790
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres11510715363438
Attendances at Ante.Natal Clinics51545153209
Attendances at Committee Meetings—10——10
Voluntary Associations
Number of insanitary conditions reported—11121841
Schick Test Clinics152219

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The feeding of the 1,670 infants visited was found to be
as follows:—
Breast.feeding 1,465
Artificial feeding 123
Mixed feeding 89