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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Maternity and Child Welfare.
TABLE XXVIII.
1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | |
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No. of Visits to : Infants under 1 year | 5211 | 4760 | 4521 | 4227 | 4323 | 5058 |
Children : 1—2 years | 149 | 179 | 169 | 119 | 72 | 43 |
2—5 years | 298 | 151 | 145 | 94 | 76 | 39 |
Puerperal Fever | 60 | 29 | 35 | 22 | 29 | 11 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 80 | 80 | 56 | 64 | 52 | 48 |
Pneumonia | 82 | 58 | 159 | 31 | 21 | 8 |
Whooping Cough | 356 | 467 | 444 | 650 | 675 | 1316 |
Measles | 415 | 126 | 380 | 237 | 1060 | 185 |
Diarrhœa | 14 | 41 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 17 |
Ante-natal visits | 206 | 491 | 582 | 669 | 867 | 693 |
Supply of milk | 3087 | 775 | 398 | 247 | 175 | 79 |
Miscellaneous | 476 | 591 | 623 | 828 | 630 | 464 |
Ineffectual | 2157 | 3019 | 2640 | 2393 | 2531 | 3451 |
Total visits | 12591 | 10767 | 10157 | 9592 | 10521 | 11412 |
Attendances at Welfare Centres | 516 | 626 | 620 | 608 | 673 | 961 |
Attendances at Ante-natal Centres | 151 | 168 | 178 | 175 | 190 | 252 |
Health talks to mothers | 119 | 138 | 153 | 163 | 141 | 253 |
Visits to Creches | 124 | 169 | 132 | 117 | 97 | 122 |
Committee meet-tings | 137 | 149 | 89 | 67 | 53 | 54 |
Total | 1047 | 1250 | 1172 | 1130 | 1154 | 1642 |