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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stepney 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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HEALTH VISITORS.
The following table shows the number of visits, etc., paid up to the 4th July, 1948.
| Miss BAILEY. | Miss BEARDSON. | Miss CLEMENTS. | Mrs. DICKSON (Vol.) | Miss GODTSCHAILK. | Miss GRIFFIN. | Miss HIRST. | Miss LOVE (to 28 February) | Miss PYSER. | Miss RUBENS. | Miss SMITHS0N. | Miss STYLES. | Miss WOODFINE. | Mrs. YARNELL. | Mrs. BUCHANAN. (from 5th April) | TOTALS. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | |
| Visits: - | ||||||||||||||||
| Primary | 48 | 92 | 65 | 78 | 73 | 61 | 78 | 30 | 71 | 112 | 68 | 67 | 84 | 75 | 20 | 1022 |
| Revisits: - | ||||||||||||||||
| To infants under 1 year | 303 | 457 | 254 | 454 | 410 | 328 | 472 | 126 | 396 | 306 | 207 | 372 | 527 | 398 | 197 | 5156 |
| To children between 1-5 years | 564 | 501 | 540 | 1014 | 663 | 784 | 438 | 105 | 920 | 764 | 511 | 504 | 793 | 895 | 371 | 9367 |
| Ante-natal:- | ||||||||||||||||
| Primary | 15 | 59 | 17 | 69 | 49 | 38 | 45 | 15 | 58 | 59 | 26 | 25 | 17 | 35 | 26 | 553 |
| Subsequent | 11 | 22 | 10 | 78 | 21 | 33 | 15 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 48 | 1 | 25 | 90 | 19 | 425 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | 6 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 9 |
(Continued)
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