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 Romford]
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Table 6.
I. | II. | III. | IV. | V. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of Individual Patients treated | 20 | 12 | 7 | 23 | 15 |
Total No. of Exposures | 348 | 169 | 78 | 401 | 274 |
Total No. of Minutes | 3028 | 1478 | 580 | 3284 | 2212 |
Average period of treatment in weeks | 8.7 | 7 | 5.6 | 8.7 | 9 |
Minimum period of treatment in weeks | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | 3.5 |
Maximum period of treatment in weeks | 20 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 18 |
Average No. of doses | 17.4 | 14 | 11.2 | 17.4 | 18 |
Minimum No. of doses | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
Maximum No. of doses | 40 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 36 |
Average strength of dose in minutes | 8.7 | 8.7 | 7.4 | 8 | 8 |
Minimum strength of dose in minutes | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Maximum strength of dose in minutes | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Average increase of weight in lbs. | .59 | .93 | .3 | .76 | .88 |
Average increase in hegiht in inches | .87 | .81 | .46 | 1.88 | .99 |
Table 7 relates to the Home Visits paid by the Health Visitors.
TABLE 7.
(a) To Expectant Mothers. | |
First Visits | 68 |
Total Visits | 104 |
(b) To Children under One Year of age. | |
First Visits | 815 |
Total Visits | 2,399 |
(c) To Children between the Ages of 1 and 5 years. | |
Total Visits | 4,749 |
3. Child Life Protection. |
In Bomford, each Health Visitor also holds the appointment of
Child Protection Visitor under Sections 206 to 220 of the Public
Health Act, 1936.
TABLE 8.
(a) Number of Persons who were receiving Children for reward at the end of the year | 42 |
(b) Number of Children: | |
(1) At the end of the year | 50 |
(2) Who died during the year | 0 |
(3) On whom inquest were held during the year | 0 |
(c) Number of Child Protection Visitors at the end of the year who were: | |
(1) Health Visitors | 3 |
(2) Female, other than Health Visitors | 0 |
(3) Male | 0 |