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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
Bromley 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| Areas. | Total. | Ineffectual Visits. | Under one year. | Revisits over one year. | Expectant Mothers. | School Children. | Baby Deaths. | Stillbirths | Tuberculosis | Special Visits. | M'wives Acts enquiries | Boarded out Children. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Revisits | ||||||||||||
| Area No. 1 | 1029 | 206 | 85 | 125 | 427 | 37 | 138 | 4 | 1 | 70 | 141 | 1 | 12 |
| Area No. 2 | 1173 | 252 | 102 | 321 | 436 | 40 | 185 | 4 | 54 | 27 | 4 | 12 | |
| Area No. 3 | 1437 | 141 | 121 | 242 | 796 | 21 | 133 | 5 | 3 | 66 | 22 | 28 | 28 |
| Area No. 4 | 1235 | 164 | 114 | 232 | 587 | 48 | 194 | ... | 1 | 29 | 29 | 1 | 8 |
| Area No. 5 | 1066 | 226 | 108 | 179 | 533 | 13 | 96 | 2 | 1 | 73 | 41 | 20 | 16 |
| Area No. 6 | 1374 | 278 | 123 | 309 | 608 | 66 | 100 | ... | 2 | 51 | 13 | 2 | 10 |
| Totals | 7214 (Net) | 1267‡ | 653 | 1408 | 3387 | 225 | 846 | 15 | 8 | 343 | 273 | 56 | 861 |
* Also included in routine visits under the various headings.
‡ " Ineffectual" visits are those where no answer is received; discovered removed from district, or where
visits are resented, and are not included in the total of the first column. The aggregate total of
visits is, therefore, 8,481.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY WORK, 1937.
Patients on the Dispensary Roll at end of November, 1937 178
Health Visitor's attendances at Dispensary 46
Total No. of special visits to Patients 188
(N.B.—The arrangement for a Health Visitor to attend the Tuberculosis Dispensary was terminated at 30/11/1937).