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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Marylebone 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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(b) Total quantity of milk supplied during the year to expectant and
nursing mothers and young children
Liquid Dried
gallons pounds
(i) by the Council 6895½ 5440
(ii) by Voluntary Associations — —
Day Nurseries.
(a) Number of day nurseries: (i) provided by the Council, nil; (ii)
vided by Voluntary Associations, 3.
(b) Number of places for children under 5 years of age in the nurseries:
(i) provided by the Council, nil; (ii) provided by Voluntary Associations,
93.
(c) Total number of attendances of children at these nurseries during the
year, 18,237.
| Disease. | Number of cases notified during the year. | Number of cases visited by officers of the Council. | Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council. | Number of cases removed to hospitals. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| (2) | Pemphigus Neonatorum | — | — | — | — |
| (3) | Puerperal Fever | 4 | 4 | - | 4 |
| (4) | Puerperal Pyrexia | 28 | 10 | — | 27 |
| (5) | Measles and German Measles (in children under 5 years of age) | Not Notifiable | 239 | 25 | - |
| (6) | Whooping Cough (in children under 5 years of age) | 80 | 4 | - | |
| (7) | . Epidemic Diarrhœa (in children under 5 years of age) | 14 | — | — | |
| (8) | Poliomyelitis (in children under 5 years of age) | — | — | — | |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Vision unimpaired 4
Removed from district 3
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Home Nursing.
(a) Number of nurses employed at the end of the year for the nursing of
expectant mothers and children under 5 years of age, maternity
nursing, or the nursing of puerperal fever: (i) by the Council, nil;
(ii) by Voluntary Associations, the time of 1½ nurses.
(b) Total number of cases attended during the year by these nurses, 69.