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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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The Borough Council contributed £431 per annum. The Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee agreed with the Voluntary Committee
that the number of attendances did not justify the continuance of the
Nursery and it was accordingly closed down at the end of December.
Hampstcad and North St. Pancras Day Nursery.
This Day Nursery occupies commodious premises at 27 & 29,
Pond Street. There are 50 places in the Nursery for children under
5 years of age. The total number of attendances made during 1933
was 10,546. The Nursery is controlled by a Voluntary Committee
and the Borough Council contributes £543 per annum. By an
arrangement with this Voluntary Committee the Borough Council
rents a portion of the premises for the purpose of an Ante-natal
Clinic.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia, etc.
| Disease. | Number of cases notified during the year. | Number of cases visited by officers of the Council. | Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council. | N umber of cases removed to hospitals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 (In 1 case the vision was seriously impaired) | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Puerperal fever | 2 | — | — | 2 (Hospital cases) |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 12 | — | — | 12 (11 do. ) |
| Measles and german measles (in children under 5 years of age) | 29 | 25 | 2 | 7 |
| Whooping Cough (do.) | Not notifiable | 74 | — | 39 |
| Epidemic diarrhœa (do.) | do. | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis (do.) | — | — | — | — |