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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
Paddington 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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| Bread | 383 lbs. |
| Canned goods, milk, meat, fish, fruit | 987 tins |
| Jams | 234 jars |
| Sauces, etc. | 236 bottles |
| Fresh fruit & vegetables | 1833 lbs. |
| Meal portions, prepared | 309 |
| Dried fruit | 161 lbs. |
| Eggs | 132 fresh |
| 32 lbs. dried | |
| Meat, fish, bacon | 325 lbs. |
| Oxo | 864 cubes |
Eighteen visits were paid to the one slaughter-house in the
Borough, for the short period during which it operated at the
beginning of the year. The number of animals slaughtered comprised
12 bullocks and 30 sheep.
Four hundred and seventy-seven inspections of the 195 dairies
and milkshops were made, and 4,868 inspections of food purveyors'
premises, which number approximately. 1,000.
Licences issued under the Milk (Special Designations) Order
1936 numbered 86, (67 in respect of "Pasteurised" and 19 in respect
of "Tuberculin Tested" milk). Four samples of "Pasteurised" milk
were taken, which, with one exception, complied with the prescribed
test.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Health Visitors who were employed on Air Raid Precautions
work at the end of 1939 resumed their normal duties early in the
year, but the services of those officers have been utilised from
time to time in connection with Evacuation, Billeting and other
Civil Defence Duties.
The home visiting work of the Health Visitors during the year is summarised in the appended table:-
| First visits to children under 1 year of age | 1,214 |
| Revisits | 5,570 |
| 6,584 | |
| Visits to children between the ages of 1 and 5 years | 8,051 |
| First visits to expectant mothers | 1,139 |
| Revisits | 845 |
| 1,984 | |
| Other visits - | |
| Sickness (including Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Infantile Diarrhoea | .171 |
| Miscellaneous (including ineffective calls) | 5,330 |
| 5,501 |
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