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99
REPORT
OF THE
HEALTH VISITOR, HAGGERSTON.
Town Hall,
Shoreditch, E.C.
To the Medical Officer of Health. January, 1914.
Sir,
I beg to submit the following Report on the work of Health Visiting in
the Haggerston Division during the year 1913.
The total number of visits paid, attendances of parents at Haggerston Baths
and interviews was 3,952, distributed as follows :—
1. Visits in connection with the Notification of Births Act :—
First visits 1,435
Re-visits 722
2,157
2. Meetings at Weighing Centre 34
3. Parents' Attendances at Weighing Centre 520
4. Visits in connection with Notifications of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum:—
First visits 16
Re-visits 29
45
5. Visits in connection with cases of Summer Diarrhæa 35
Enquiries into deaths from Summer Diarrhcea 31
66
6. Enquiries into cases of Puerperal Septicaemia:—
First visits 5
Re-visits 3
8
7. Visits in connection with Notifications of Tuberculosis:—
First visits 218
Re-visits 249
467
8. Enquiries into deaths from Phthisis 15
9. Miscellaneous visits 80
10. Futile visits 466
11. Interviews held with various people in connection with the
work 94
12. Letters written 78
Notification of Births Act.
This work has been more satisfactorily followed up since the opening, on
April 10th, of the Weekly Weighing Centre and Class for Mothers at the Haggerston
Baths,