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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

Barking 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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The total attendances during the year were 10,125 as compared
with 11,525 in 1925. There is no reason to anticipate that this
reduction is other than a temporary one; it being probably accounted
for by the changes in the staff mentioned above.

Table: Particulars of the home visits paid by the health visitors is given in the following table:—

Particulars of the home visits paid by the health visitors is given in the following table:—

No. of ante-natal visits221
No. of first visits to children under one yearNo. of subsequent visits to children under one year:—826
(a) Attending a Centre659
(b) Not Attending a Centre2,671
No. of visits to children 1 to 5 years of age:— (a) Attending a Centre300
(b) Not Attending a Centre1,511
No. of special visits in connection with Ophthalmia Neonatorum44
Ditto Deaths of children up to 3 years of age59
Ditto Still-births24
Ditto Puerperal sepsis and Pueperal Pyrexia3
Ditto Foster Children28
Other visits (not specified)65