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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

Enfield 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: VISITS.

VISITS.

Town, Chase and Hadley.Bush Hill Park.Ordnance.Ponders End.Totals.
Birth Notification
Visits4123016002431,556
Ditto Re-visits3306535645462,093
Children, 1-5 years Visits9199671,5281,1554,569
Visits re Insanitary Conditions29314
General Visits954623118282
Ante-Natal Visits122249214234819
Post-Natal Visits361401223211
Blank Visits309136600851130
Infectious Disease
Visits321517729289
Ophthalmia Neonatorum Visits-11
Puerperal Fever Visits-----
Puerperal Pyrexia Visits-----
Visits re Foster Children23286916136
Totals2,2802,6803,6912,44911,100

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ASSISTED MILK SUPPLY.
The quantity of fresh and dried milk supplied to necessitous
cases under the Assisted Milk Supply Scheme during the year
was as follows:-
Fresh Milk: 12,391-3/8 galls. ; cost, £1,344 Os. 4d.
Dried Milk: 2,404 lb.; cost, £182 12s. 8d.

Table: The corresponding figures for1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937 were:

The corresponding figures for

1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937 were:

1934-1935-1936-1937-
Fresh Milk:
16,414 galls.13,377 galls.11,414 galls.10,287½ galls.
£1,481 4s. 3d.£1,395 15s. 6½d.£1,269 12s. 6d.£1,164 8s. 7¾d.
Dried Milk :
4,201 lbs.3389 lbs.2,803 lbs.2,745 lbs.
£311 3s. 4d.£243 13s. l1¾d.£204 0s. l0d.£206 l1s. lid.

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The grant of free milk and food and the cost thereof has dropped
from 1934 to 1937 due to increased employment throughout the
district. On page 62 of my report last year I referred to a tendency
for the demand for assistance to rise. This tendency continued
throughout 1938, and the cost increased for the year.