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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

Shoreditch 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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92
REPORT
OF THE
HEALTH VISITOR, HOXTON.
Town Hall,
Shoreditch,
June, 1914.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I have much pleasure in submitting the following report on the work of
Health Visiting in the Hoxton Division of the Borough during the year 1913.
Part of my time has been spent in visiting various people resident in Shoreditch,
and the rest in the clerical work which the visiting involves.
The total number of (1) visits paid; (2) attendances of parents at the Town
Hall; (3) interviews in connection with the above amounts to 2,781.

Table: This total is composed of the numbers given in the following division of the work done :—

This total is composed of the numbers given in the following division of the work done :—

I. Work in connection with the notification of Births Act.
(a.) Visits and revisits to homes1,400
Visits 706
Revisits 696
(b.) Attendances of parents at the Town Hall, consequent on these visits322
II. Work in connection with the prevalence of Epidemic Diarrhcea during the summer.
(a.) Special visits to infants6
(b.) Enquiries into deaths of infants24
III. Work in connection with notifications of Puerperal Septicœmia.
Visits and revisits to patients4
One being a revisit.