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Shoreditch 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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66
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.

Table: Summary of Work for the Year 1920byDr. Maitland Radford.

Summary of Work for the Year 1920

by

Dr. Maitland Radford.

Health Visitors' Districts.
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.Total.
No. of 1st visits to infants2693392953773741805322.466
No. of re-visits to infants7007226194727547541,5785,599
No. of 1st visits to children aged 1 to 5 years (irrespective of whether visited previously as an infant)51224239228783119062,037
No. of re-visits to children aged 1 to 5 years89713019241,3911,3421,1431,5898,587
No. of 1st visits to expectant mothers5055707010476216611
No. of re-visits to expectant mothers4410276636156157559
No. of futile visits150204341771122487341,659
No. of interviews in connection with work3242565054331132881,1353,054
*No. of 1st visits to infants with diarrhoea......3111......15
*No. of 1st visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum9981896...59
No. of re-visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum12141627158...92
No. of 1st visits to cases of puerperal fever...1...2...1...4
No. of re-visits to cases of puerperal fever.........2.........2
No. of 1st visits to cases of puerperal pyrexia.........2.........2
No. of Health Visitors' attendances at Centres:
(a) Town Hall Centre29.........2449...102
(b) Hoxton Hall Centre...2452622...104
(c) Maternity Centre128177133147147136...868
(d) Harbour Lights Centre524s501......151
(e) School for Mothers Centre..................315315

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* These visits are also included above.