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 Woolwich]
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were given three hot baths, the affected places dressed with
sulphur ointment, and their clothing and bedding disinfected.
Alice M. Middle.ebrooke.
59. The following is Miss FitzGerald's Report:—
Summary of Inspections.
Visits to houses after notification of births 1205
Re-visits. 237
Visits re infant death 57
Domiciliary visits to children attending Consultation 250
Zymotic Enteritis cases investigated, including re-visits 238
Tuberculous cases 86
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 28
Ophthalmia (reported by Schools). 10
Puerperal Fever 6
Complaints investigated 5
Infants weighed at Consultation 1196
Health Lectures given 9
Evening visits 6
Unsuccessful visits (occupiers absent from home) 750
Visit6 re dirty conditions 26
Visits not otherwise classified 100
Reported to District Inspectors:—
Contraventions of Housing Acts 4
Dirty interior walls 7
Other defects 20
Overcrowding 2
Visits paid by pupils who did temporary health visiting
under my supervision:—
Miss Hurst 53
Mis6 Durrant 349