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Shoreditch 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH. MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. Summary of Work for the Year 1925

by

Dr. Maitland Radford.

Health Visitors' Districts.
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.Total.
No. of 1st visits to infants2983112814064002575402,493
No. of re-visits to infants6507254796306526741,4045,214
No. of 1st visits to children aged 1 to 5 years (irrespective of whether visited previously as an infant)1211791671951903568032,011
No. of re-visits to children aged 1 to 5 years8949455871,2171,0585362,0777,314
No. of 1st visits to expectant mothers5166427010245188564
No. of re-visits to expectant mothers309050486616157463
No. of futile visits2101651111961853126811,860
No. of interviews in connection with work226167337353961208342,133
No. of 1st visits to infants with diarrhœa...............1...1
*No. of 1st visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum482119438
*No. of re-visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum...11311164...45
No. of 1st vists to cases of puerperal fever43.........1...8
No. of re-visits to cases of puerperal fever...6...2.........8
No. of Health Visitors' attendances at Clinics:
(a) Town Hall Centre33......122436...105
(b) Hoxton Hall Centre8...3850211...109
(c) Maternity Centre10716612012912496...742
(d) Harbour Lights Centre374246...22...1148
(e) School for Mothers Centre..................323323

* These visits are also included above.