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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
Hampstead 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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The following table gives a record of the work of the Health Visitors in 1932:—
| Number of first visits to expectant mothers | 139 |
| „ re-visits „ „ | 168 |
| „ infants under one year visited for the first time | 801 |
| „ re-visits to infants under one year | 3146 |
| „ visits to children over one year | 3469 |
| „ visits re deaths of infants under two years of age | 53 |
| „ „ still births | 23 |
| „ „ maternal deaths | 3 |
| „ „ infectious diseases | 1024 |
| „ attendances at Borough Council's Ante-Natal Clinics | 140 |
| „ „ „ „ Dental Clinic | 55 |
| „ „ Hampstead Council of Social Welfare Infant Welfare Centres | 294 |
| „ complaints investigated | 6 |
| „ applicants for assistance visited | 119 |
| „ unclassified visits | 198 |
Of the total births 81 per cent, were visited by the Health
Visitors, the other 19 per cent, being considered outside the scope of
our facilities for sundry reasons, chiefly economic.
Approximately 73 per cent, of the infants under one year visited
for the first time, attended the Infant Welfare Centres during 1932.
The booklet entitled "How to Rear a Baby" is sent by post with
a suitably worded letter to those border-line cases in which it is not
easy to decide whether or not a visit is desirable.
Maternity Beds.
(I) New End Hospital.
On the 1st October, 1932, a revised agreement between the
County Council and the Borough Council in respect of the reception
of borough maternity patients into New End Hospital came into force
embodying amendments to the following effects:—