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Wandsworth 1938

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

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Maternity and Child Welfare. 65

Table: Infant Visiting.TABLE XXVIII.

Infant Visiting.

TABLE XXVIII.

Clapham.Putney.Balham.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
No. of children visited:-
Under 1 year72537259557737310113653
1-2 years—224——4369
2-5 years—9——12030
Revisits to:—
Infants under 1 year135777365198154315945899
Children 1-2 years113454547187749413944915
Children 2-5 years18627717481582104929999011
Total visits to children under Notification of Births Act50782492246940172460706123577
Other visits—:
Foster Mothers153143108228124137893
Ophthalmia Neonatorum7—3102830
Measles72028447183176611314203
Whooping Cough2967971100118403
Ante-natal cases80244955192739311314253
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia5534—1532
Miscellaneous2512292172321963511486
Ineffectual153862210141442125227638631
Total Home Visits859342304915776252931271543508

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The home visiting carried out by the Superintendents of the
Balham and Putney Park Centres, who are not officers of the
Council, are not included in the above Table. These officers
made 2,667 visits—1,057 to children under one year, and 1,610 to
children between one and five years of age.
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