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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62 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1937.
TABLE XXVIII.
Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | Whole Borough. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of children visited:— | |||||||
Under 1 year | 650 | 316 | 485 | 558 | 378 | 926 | 3313 |
1-2 years | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17, | 41 |
2-5 years | 51 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 86 |
Revisits to :— | |||||||
Infants under 1 year | 960 | 421 | 423 | 1144 | 471 | 1314 | 4733 |
Children 1-2 years .. | 826 | 336 | 343 | 874 | 437 | 1134 | 3950 |
Children 2-5 years .. | 1291 | 534 | 660 | 1606 | 834 | 2245 | 7170 |
Total visits to children under Notification of Births Act | 3792 | 1617 | 1915 | 4184 | 2123 | 5662 | 19293 |
Other visits—: | |||||||
Foster Mothers | 210 | 100 | 159 | 205 | 69 | 174 | 917 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 30 |
Measles | 96 | 34 | 65 | 59 | 108 | 241 | 603 |
Whooping Cough | 161 | 109 | 28 | 172 | 68 | 473 | 1011 |
Ante-natal cases | 705 | 352 | 388 | 799 | 405 | 902 | 3551 |
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | - | - | - | 6 | - | 10 | 16 |
Miscellaneous | 248 | 189 | 251 | 279 | 209 | 653 | 1829 |
Ineffectual | 1453 | 762 | 691 | 1529 | 772 | 2002 | 7209 |
Total Home Visits | 6670 | 3165 | 3493 | 7240 | 3757 | 10129 | 34459 |
The home visiting carried out by the Superintendents of the
Clapham, Balham and Putney Park Centres, who are not officers
of the Council, are not included in the above Table. These officers
made 3,270 visits—1,803 to children under one year, 518 to children
between one and two years, and 949 to children between two and
five years of age.