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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
Islington 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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SUMMARY OF VISITS BY MUNICIPAL HEALTH VISITORS—
| District | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Totals. | |||||||||||
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| Analysis of Visits included in I.-IX. relating to tReported Ophthalmia | f/11 24 | f/6 15 | f/5 8 | Re/1 | f/9 16 | f/6 16 | f/8 21 | f/9 21 | F54 122 | |||||||||||
| (a) f Ophthalmia Neonatorum | f/16 20 | F/7 10 | f/9 18 | F/7 9 | f/17 38 | f/8 25 | f/9 18 | f/8 13 | F/71 151 | |||||||||||
| (£>) f Epidemic (Summer) Diarrhoea | - | f/2 | - | - | - | - | - | f/1 | f/3 | |||||||||||
| (c) Other Digestive Diseases | - | 2 | 3 | _- | 1 | 5 | - | - | 11 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 17 | 4 | 11 | - | 47 | 20 | 55 | 156 | ||||||||||||
| (e) Rickets | 4 | 4 | 12 | 57 | - | 39 | 1 | 55 | 172 | |||||||||||
| F/ 1 | f/5 | f/4 | - | F/1 | f/8 | - | f/11 | f/30 | ||||||||||||
| f/8 | F/39 41 | f/39 | f/I4 | f/2 | f/135 136 | f/32 35 | f'30 | f/299 305 | ||||||||||||
| (A) Tuberculous Disease—P=Pulmonary; 0 = 0ther | — | o/l | — | — | — | - | o/l | - | o/2 | |||||||||||
| (i) Convulsions | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||
| (/) -.Polio-myelitis | — | — | — | — | — | - | — | - | - | |||||||||||
| (A) Premature Birth | 5 | 1 | 19 | 25 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 21 | 108 | |||||||||||
| 3 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 15 | - | - | 21 | ||||||||||||
| (m) U1 other investigations (**Specify) .. | — | 16 | 7 | - | - | 4 | 3 | 24 | 54 | |||||||||||
| (n) Routine Visits included in I. to IX. and not included in (a) to (m) | 3,335 | 3,079 | 3,014 | 3,828 | 2,955 | 3,158 | 2,782 | 3,151 | 25,302 | |||||||||||
| ***Totals (a) to (n) | 3,402 | 3,193 | 3,129 | 3,947 | 3,015 | 3,476 | 2,893 | 3,382 | 26,437 | |||||||||||
| Total Families Visited | 2,658 | 2,223 | 2,254 | 3,034 | 2,158 | 2,545 | 2,138 | 2,446 | 19,456 | |||||||||||
| Registered Births. | New Cases Handed to H.V's for Visitation | Infant Mortality. | Maternal Puerperal Mortality. Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | |||||||||||||||
| No. | Rate. | Notified Births | Non-Notified Births. | Transfers In. | No. | Rate. | No | Rate. | Cases. | Removals | Cases. | Removals. | Cases. | Removals. | ||||||
| 5509 | 17 23 | 5584 | 189 | 419 | 403 | 73 | 26 | 7 | 38 | 37 | 88 | 77 | 69 | 11 | ||||||
| **.e.g.—Infectious Diseases other than Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic Diarrhoea, Polio-myelitis, etc. Syphilis, Rheumatism, N.N.B. Illegit, etc.*Totals (a) to (n) should correspond with Totals I. to IX. fF. in front of figures denotes a " First Visit." | ||||||||||||||||||||