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Wandsworth 1936

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

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62 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1936.
Infant Visiting.

Table: TABLE XXVIII.

TABLE XXVIII.

Clapham.Putney.Balham.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
No. of children visited:—
Under 1 year6133085155664109913403
1-2 years27876162791
2-5 years6626101858160
Revisits to:—
Infants under 1 year865575380102640112574504
Children 1-2 years65538934879237810733635
Children 2-5 years1069464595128339121975999
Total visits to children under Notification of Births Act32951746185136831614560317792
Other visits— :
Foster Mothers1928812718077243907
Ophthalmia Neonatorum75—9—2142
Measles1068422792102389414255624
Whooping Cough10810242134106162654
Ante-natal cases6363153766763927613156
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia222451530
Miscellaneous2671151852451455171474
Ineffectual1264170593132570122506303
Total Home Visits683929653968727939341099735982

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There were 3,932 births during the year and 3,403 of these,
or 86.5 per cent., were visited compared with 90.0 in 1935, 88.4
in 1934, 89.1 in 1933, 89.0 in 1932, and 90.9 in 1931.
On the occasion of the initial visit it was found that 2,995
of the 3,403 infants visited were being fed from the breast entirely.