London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Wandsworth 1934

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

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Maternity and Child Welfare.
Table XXXII. gives the full details of the work carried out
at the 12 Centres in the Borough.
2,866 new infants were examined during the year and the
total attendances were 58,529. There were 544 ante-natal cases
and the total attendances made by them was 1,486.
The visits made by the Superintendents of the three Centres
where hose officers are appointed by the Centre Committees
were 3,974 to the homes of infants and 555 to ante-natal cases.
No visits are shown in this Table for the other nine Centres, where
the Superintendents are Health Visitors, as their visits are included
in Table XXIX. which shews all the work carried out by
the Health Visitors.