Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Number of women (if any) sent by the Council during the year to other
Maternity Institutions nil
8.—Day Nurseries.
(i) provided by the Council | |
nil | |
(b) and working in the Council's area on the 31st December, 1939 | nil |
(ii) provided by Voluntary Associations | |
5 | |
nil | |
4 evacuated, 1 closed |
(i) provided by the Council | |
nil | |
(b) at the 31st December, 1939 | nil |
(ii) provided by Voluntary Associations | |
194 | |
(b) at the 31st December, 1939 | evacuated with 113 children |
(c) Total number of attendances of children at these
nurseries during the year 34,015
9.—Infectious Diseases.
Disease. | Number of cases notified during the year, | Number of cases visited by officers of the Council. | Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council. | Number of cases removed to hospitals. |
---|---|---|---|---|
(1) Ophthalmia Neonatorum | *10 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
(2) Pemphigus Neonatorum | — | 1 | 1 | - |
(3) Puerperal fever | 5 | — | — | 5 |
(4) Puerperal pyrexia | 22 | 22 | 1 | 21 |
(5) Measles and German measles (in children under 5 years of age) | 41 | 77 | 1 | 30 |
(6) Whooping Cough (do.) | 443 | 605 | — | 126 |
(7) Epidemic Diarrhoea (do.) | — | — | — | — |
4 | — | — | 4 |
*Number of cases in which vision was unimpaired 10, impaired —, or lost —
„ ,, ,, the patient died —, removed from district —, or was
still under treatment at the end of the year —
„ ,, any other category —.