Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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HEALTH WORK.
The number of visits made by the Health Visitors and other officers of the Public Health Department
to houses in connection with Births, and other Health Work during 1926.
| Original Visits. | Revisits. | Visits to Ante-Natal Cases. | Visits to Post-Natal Cases. | Visits to Delicate Infants. | Visits to Cases of Diarrhœa and Sick Children. | Attendances at Welfare Centres | Visits where Mothers were found to be out. | Special Visits, &c. | Puerperal Pyrexia. | Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Measles | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Births. | Measles. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | ||||||||||
| Mrs. Holland | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 382 | - | 2 | - | 392 |
| Mrs. Kingpmill | 480 | 573 | 4 | 3,501 | 5 | — | 223 | — | — | 3 | 101 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4,901 |
| Miss Johnson | 387 | 281 | 3 | 2,946 | 42 | — | 186 | 22 | — | — | 91 | 106 | 1 | 4 | 4,069 |
| Miss Hartley | 310 | 455 | 9 | 3,444 | 1 | - | 147 | 1 | — | 6 | 111 | 183 | — | 1 | 4,668 |
| Miss Rogers | 314 | 135 | 1 | 2,666 | 21 | — | 94 | 1 | — | 1 | 98 | 216 | — | 1 | 3,548 |
| Miss Cottrill | 403 | 297 | 5 | 3,215 | 9 | — | 44 | 13 | 26 | 3 | 88 | 1 | — | 3 | 4,107 |
| Miss Sayer | 263 | 287 | 11 | 3,376 | 362 | — | 36 | 2 | — | 5 | 92 | 42 | — | 2 | 4,485 |
| Miss Adair | 274 | 197 | — | 4,837 | 32 | — | 169 | 35 | 92 | 138 | 98 | 17 | — | — | 5,889 |
| Miss Freeth | 415 | 525 | 13 | 4,016 | 150 | — | 143 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 98 | 107 | 4 | 6 | 5,505 |
| Mrs. George | 231 | 322 | 5 | 3,027 | 87 | — | 75 | 2 | — | 15 | 87 | 112 | — | 2 | 3,965 |
| Mrs. Newman (home help) | - | — | - | - | - | — | - | — | - | - | 121 | - | 48 | - | 169 |
| Total | 3,077 | 3080 | 51 | 31,028 | 709 | - | 1117 | 108 | 120 | 172 | 1,367 | 788 | 58 | 23 | 41,698 |