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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

Wandsworth 1917

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
"The sanitary defects found in the houses during our visits
to the mothers have been remedied, or if requiring structural work,
referred to you. 65 intimation notices were served and three
statutory notices were required.

Table: TABLE XXI.

TABLE XXI.

Clapham, North.Clapham, South.PutneyStreatham.Balham.Tooting.Southfield.Fairfield.Springfield.Borough.
Infants visited3493151944276325403242415013,543
Breast-fed2992941493505454452752074062,970
Otherwise fed5021457710795493495573
Infants re-visited5374252043295524383143085053,612
Breast-fed2081791042203321781841732571,835
Otherwise fed3292461001092202601301352481,777
Ineffectual visits486392131941802291421723072,133

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The total number of deaths among those visited was 134,
22 in Clapham, four in Putney, 26 in Streatham, 29 in Tooting, and
53 in Wandsworth. The heaviest mortality occurred at two to
three months.
The mortality among the infants visited by the Inspectors
was only 37 per 1,000 births, compared with 89 per 1,000, the rate
for the Borough for the year.
In accordance with the scheme for attending the visiting
of children up to the age of five years, 684 children between the ages
of 1 to 2 years and 2,964 between the ages of 2 and 5 years were
seen by us.