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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The information which is brought out by this table is that there were 971
individual children (new cases), under the age of one year, who attended your
clinics. You will remember that the total number of live births was 1,252 which
means that approximately 77 per cent, of the children born in Barking attended
at your centres.
(u)
| No. of half-days devoted to visiting | 1,927 |
| No. of ante-natal visits :— | |
| First visits | 362 |
| Subsequent visits | 67 |
| No. of first visits to children under one year | 1,543 |
| No. of subsequent visits to children under one year :— | |
| (a) attending a centre | 608 |
| (b) not attending a centre | 5,812 |
| No. of visits to children 1 to 5 years of age :— | |
| 9,347 | |
| 12,773 | |
| No. of special visits in connection with ophthalmia neonatorum | 52 |
| „ „ ,, deaths of children up to 3 years of age | 82 |
| „ ,, „ still-births | 41 |
| „ „ „ peuperal sepsis and puerperal pyrexia | 3 |
| Other visits (re infectious diseases) | 368 |
| Total home visits of all kinds | 18,285 |
(v)
| No. of pints supplied at reduced price. | No. of pints supplied free. | Total. | Total cost of milk supplied. | Council's liability in respect of fresh milk supplied. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| 6,885 | 44,058½ | 50,943½ | 805 | 5 | 751 | 11 | 2 | |