Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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THE WORK OF THE HEALTH VISITORS - MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE VISITS ONLY, 1955
Visits Re | Bi rd | Blackmore | Blest | E.M.Col1ins | Devaney | Early | Eldridge | Elliott | Emms | Gregg | Griggs | Hall (deceased) | Hawk ins | E. La ing | Llewellyn | Lucey | M ayo | McGuiness Com. 1.2.55 Left 30.4.55 | Morton | Partridge | Pickering | Poupard | Singleton Com. 2.5.55 | Stevens Com. 10.10.55 | The i son | Thompson | Toneri left 30.4.55 | Tripet | Vince | Webb Com. 25.11.55 | weller | welson | Wybrew | Total 1955 | Total 1954 |
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Infants under 1 year - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Visits | 122 | 149 | 116 | 92 | 164 | 91 | 132 | 94 | 145 | 53 | 106 | 24 | 160 | 139 | 109 | 112 | 178 | 48 | 164 | 116 | 108 | 210 | 70 | 30 | 108 | 102 | 46 | 147 | 135 | 15 | 104 | 52 | 157 | 3598 | 3411 |
Re-visits | 334 | 581 | 535 | 127 | 278 | 610 | 519 | 271 | 559 | 194 | 661 | 31 | 534 | 315 | 585 | 770 | 915 | 319 | 579 | 334 | 689 | 703 | 608 | 214 | 350 | 442 | 242 | 935 | 695 | 60 | 305 | 216 | 630 | 15140 | 15171 |
Children 1-2 years - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Visits | - | - | 4 | 4 | 28 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 4 | - | 6 | - | 51 | - | 2 | - | 14 | 6 | - | 4 | - | 18 | 226 | 160 |
Re-visits | 255 | 478 | 345 | 82 | 253 | 642 | 355 | 146 | 380 | 141 | 411 | 31 | 218 | 88 | 366 | 453 | 721 | 241 | 468 | 211 | 374 | 358 | 275 | 137 | 172 | 321 | 125 | 608 | 1089 | 35 | 123 | 110 | 339 | 10351 | 10002 |
Children 2-5 years - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Visits | - | 1 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 18 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 54 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 7 | - | 12 | 206 | 182 |
Re-visits | 190 | 746 | 792 | 83 | 220 | 497 | 819 | 186 | 470 | 164 | 800 | 64 | 511 | 68 | 363 | 636 | 767 | 383 | 590 | 461 | 506 | 485 | 505 | 214 | 403 | 405 | 186 | 1065 | 1278 | 126 | 439 | 182 | 840 | 15444 | 17075 |
Expectant Mothers - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Visits | 1 | 78 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 16 | 46 | 3 | 62 | 4 | 44 | 33 | 17 | - | 27 | 34 | 15 | 28 | 18 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 95 | 30 | - | 19 | 13 | 42 | 730 | 817 |
Re-visits | - | 6 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | 7 | - | 3 | - | 49 | - | 37 | 2 | " | 5 | 36 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | - | 91 | 1 | - | 5 | 6 | 1 | 327 | 308 | |
Still Births | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 10 |
Deaths under 1 year | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | " | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 20 | 15 | |
Miscellaneous visits | 266 | 226 | 264 | 29 | 247 | 23 | 101 | 186 | 216 | 20 | 730 | 26 | 84 | 40 | 34 | 256 | 95 | 19 | 139 | 48 | 29 | 214 | 7 | 21 | 52 | 190 | 92 | 20 | 20 | 4 | 51 | 103 | 117 | 3969 | 4741 |
Ineffective visits | 239 | 240 | 346 | 248 | 80 | 745 | 99 | 100 | 252 | 132 | 305 | 12 | 464 | 452 | 235 | 277 | 326 | 107 | 443 | 166 | 547 | 368 | 416 | 192 | 219 | 240 | 117 | 97 | 299 | 57 | 217 | 72 | 352 | 8461 | 9177 |
TOTALS. 1955 | 1411 | 2511 | 2441 | 674 | 1296 | 2631 | 2036 | 1004 | 2030 | 723 | 3069 | 192 | 2065 | 1118 | 1797 | 2568 | 3090 | 1138 | 2426 | 1383 | 2305 | 2412 | 1904 | 919 | 1328 | 1730 | 813 | 3074 | 3555 | 299 | 1276 | 754 | 2508 | 58480 | " |
TOTALS. 1954 | 2463 | 2458 | 2230 | 803 | 2715 | 2852 | 2463 | 1898 | 79 | 1663 | 2842 | 1247 | 892 | 325 | 2281 | 2404 | 659 | - | 2471 | 1086 | 2633 | 1243 | - | - | 1474 | 2329 | 1214 | 3450 | 3466 | 249 | 661 | 2180 | 2269 | •61069 |
* Including Health Visitors who left in 1954
Number of families or households visited during the year. 14,307