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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 1936

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

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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.3636564963511,866
First visits3395664563321,693
Re-visits (under 1 year)6809479681,1083,703
Re-visits (1-5 years)5864887889142,776
Out6911,3121,1341,4264,563
Removals136202275206819
Special visits14011187145483
Ophthalmia-Neonatorum 1st visits12115
Ophthalmia-Neonatorum Re-visits-----
Puerperal Fever—1225
Puerperal Pyrexia125412
Ante-natal—First visits205305234188932
Ante-natal—Re-visits58241746145
Stillbirths101415948
Infant Deaths20431431108
Measles18952961
Pneumonia__336
Encephalitis Lethargica——_22
Chickenpox12115
Whooping Cough51—39
Polio-Myelitis_1__1
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis22--_4
Epidemic Diarrhœa1——34
Total visits2,8944,0324,0054,45315,384
Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres10810015065423
Attendances at Ante-Natal Clinics40333966178
Attendances at Committee Meetings Voluntary Associations-1——1
Number of insanitary conditions reported69112854
Schick Test Clinics13—15—28

Table: The feeding of the 1,693 infants visited was found to be as follows:—

The feeding of the 1,693 infants visited was found to be as follows:—

Breast-feeding1,452
Artificial feeding136
Mixed feeding105

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Every effort is made by the Health Visitors to encourage
mothers to breast-feed their infants, and also to induce
them to attend the Consultations at the Infant Welfare
Centres, so that both mother and child may be kept under