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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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regular attenders once each month, but as the clinics
are so well attended it has not been possible for this to
take place in all cases.
The inauguration of prescriptions for medicines for
mothers, babies and toddlers has been much appreciated
both by the medical officers and the patients. It is,
of course, still not possible for your medical officers to
visit patients' homes and in this respect urgent cases
are always referred to the family doctor.

Table: (u) Home Visiting.—The home visits carried out by your Health Visitors are shown in detail in the following table:—

(u) Home Visiting.—The home visits carried out by your Health Visitors are shown in detail in the following table:—

No. of half-days devoted to visiting2,206
No. of ante-natal visits:— First visits594
Subsequent visits433
No. of post-natal visits973
No. of first visits to children under I year1,151
No. of subsequent visits to children under 1 year:-(a) Attending a Centre4,117
(b) Not attending a Centre2,726
No. of visits to children I to 5 years of age11,014
No. of special visits in connection with— Ophthalmia neonatorum5
Deaths of children up to 3 years of age42
Stillbirths22
Puerperal pyrexia6
Infectious diseases300
No. of visits to foster children304
No. of other visits249
Total home visits of all kinds21,936