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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

Wembley 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]

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Table: The number of visits paid during the year by the Health Visitors were:—

The number of visits paid during the year by the Health Visitors were:—

To Expectant Mothers:
First Visits523
Total Visits779
To Children under 1 year of age:
First Visits1939
Total Visits4937
To Children between 1 and 5 years of age Total Visits3193
Visits to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum2
Puerperal Pyrexia and Fever21
Measles115
Whooping Cough152
Diarrhoea135
Ringworm3
Consumption11
General (unclassified)210

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SUPPLY OF MILK.
An economic circumstances scale adopted by the Council
governs the supply of milk, and in accordance with the same
183 families received grants of free milk during the year, for
expectant mothers, nursing mothers or children under the age
of three years, and in certain "Special" cases for children
between three and five years.
In addition 54 children received Cod Liver Oil, Virol,
or Emulsion.
MATERNAL MORTALITY
Generally—and as Affecting the District.
Taking the combined districts now called Wembley, the
Maternal Mortality Rate has been and may be stated now to
be 3.11 per 1,000 births.
This rate shows a decrease on last year which we hope
will continue.
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Chairman and Secretary, and in this way are doing very
useful work with the mothers and children in the matter of
clothing, cooking and general welfare work.