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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infectious Diseases.
Table 18 gives information regarding infectious disease notifications, and the
number of cases visited and for whom home nursing or hospital accommodation
was provided.
TABLE 18.
| 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 hospital. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | |||
| — | — | — | ||
| — | ||||
| 1 | ||||
| — | — | |||
| (6) Whooping Cough (in children under 5 years of age) | — | — | ||
| — | — | — | ||
| — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Ten cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, of which details are given below, were
notified during the year. The number in 1936 was seven.
Vision unimpaired 8
Removal from district 1
Died 1
10
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, 40.
Home Helps.
Number of cases in which home helps have been provided during the
year, 3.
Convalescent Homes.
(a) Number of convalescent institutions with accommodation for expectant
or nursing mothers or children under 5 years of age :
(i) provided by the Council—nil.
(ii) provided by voluntary associations—2 beds maintained by the
Council for nursing mothers and children under 5 years of
age at the Zachary Merton Convalescent Home, Rustington,
Sussex.