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Shoreditch 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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REPORT
on
HEALTH VISITING, HAGGERSTON.
by
Maude E. Jacocks,
Health Visitor,
Certificates of Derbyshire Royal Infirmary; Queen Charlotte's Hospital; Central Midwives
Board ; Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute and Royal Sanitary Institute.
Town Hall,
Shoreditch, E.C.
January, 1915.
Tn the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
The Report on the work of Health Visiting in the Haggerston Division
of the Borough during the year 1914 is as follows:—
The total number of visits paid, attendances ( (re) personal, (L) of mothers) at
the Haggerston Baths Maternity Centre, and interviews was 4,653. The total may
be classified as follows:—
1. Visits under the Notification of Births Act:—
| First visits | 1,549 | |
| Re-visits | 551 | |
| 2,100 | ||
| 2. Ante-natal cases | 14 | |
| 3. Personal Attendances at Maternity Centre | 50 | |
| 4. Attendances of Mothers at Maternity Centre | 1,165 | |
| 5. Visits in connection with Ophthalmia Neonatorum :— | ||
| First visits | 11 | |
| Re-visits | 27 | |
| 38 | ||
| 6. Visits in connection with Summer Diarrhoea | 12 | |
| 7. Enquiries into Deaths from Summer Diarrhoea | 40 | |
| 8. Enquiries into cases of Puerperal Septicaemia :— | ||
| First visits | 5 | |
| Re-visits | 7 | |
| 12 |