[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking] page 67

Barking 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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INFANT AND CHILD WELFARE.
Work of the Health Visitors and the Infant Clinics.

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An analysis of the attendance at the Infant Welfare Centres is given in the following table :—

Infant Welfare Centres.	Clinic Premises	Alex. Centre	Movers Lane	Total
No. of sessions	101	99	100	300
No. of attendances of children under one year:—
(a) New cases	175	150	155	480
(b) Old cases	2014	1427	1715	5156
No. of attendances of children 1 to 5 years of age:—
(a) New cases	34	39	28	101
(b) Old cases	792	1215	817	2824
Average number of attendances per session	29	28	27	28
No. of sessions attended by medical officers	99	99	99	297
No. of children seen by medical officers
(a) Under one year	1493	1082	1188	3763
(b) Over one year	525	778	550	1853
Average number of children seen by medical officer per session	20	18	17	18

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The total attendances during the year were 8,561 as compared
with 8.592 in 1927.

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

No. of ante-natal visits	121
No. of first visits to children under one year	777
No. of subsequent visits to children under one year:—
(a) Attending a Centre	296
(b) Not Attending a Centre	2,897
No. of visits to children 1 to 5 years of age:—
(a) Attending a Centre	243
(b) Not Attending a Centre	2,987
No. of special visits in connection with Ophthalmia Neonatorum	29
Ditto Deaths of children up to 3 years of age	64
Ditto Still-births	17
Ditto Puerperal sepsis and Pueperal Pyrexia	6
Ditto Foster Children	27
Other visits (not specified)	283