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visit not to require any Help from the Public Health Authority. It
was felt that these visits represented a loss of valuable energy and time,
and during the year an experiment was tried by instituting the practice
of sending a letter to these cases, which numbered 72, thus effecting a
saving in the time of the Health Visitors, which can be more profitably
utilised in other directions.
The booklet entitled "How to Rear a Baby" is also sent with the
letter.
The total number of Hampstead births was 1,028, and they took
place as follows:—
Queen Mary's Maternity Home 62 or 6 per cent.
Nursing Homes 107 „ 10 „
Hospitals 267 „ 26 „
Usual place of residence 557 „ 54 „
Other addresses 35 „ 3 „
Information has been recorded during the year of the housing conditions
of families in which a birth occurred at home, and the table that
follows is compiled from the Health Visitors' records. It is an analysis
of 319 instances where these births were visited, and where the information
was obtainable.
No. of
persons
in
family.
No. of families occupying the following number of rooms.
1 room.
2 rooms.
3 rooms.
4 rooms.
5 rooms.
6 rooms.
7 rooms.
8 rooms.
1 - 1 1 - - - - -
2 12 45 29 10 3 - - -
3 8 36 24 8 - - - -
4 3 21 27 10 - 1 - -
5 1 17 18 1 2 - - -
63551 1 - --
7 - 3 5 1 ------
8 342----
9 - 1 4 - - - - -
11 — 1 ----- 1
12 or over - - - - - - - -
Totals 27 133 117 33 7 1 — 1
The newly-born baby has not been included in the above.
Of these 319 births: —
8.5 per cent. occurred in 1-roomed tenements.
41.7 „ „ 2 ,,
36.7 „ „ 3 ,,