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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TABLE No. 43.
Year of Birth. | Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | N. Woolwich. | New Eltham. | Slade. | Beresford Street (Voluntary). | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1922 | 554 | 319 | 242 | 42 | 34 | 49 | 36 | 1276 |
1921 | 630 | 393 | 270 | 45 | 37 | 31 | 43 | 1449 |
1920 | 344 | 243 | 211 | 28 | 21 | 23 | 20 | 896 |
1919 | 138 | 95 | 113 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 388 |
1918 | 37 | 43 | 65 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 161 |
1917 | 18 | 14 | 33 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 70 |
Totals | 1721 | 1107 | 934 | 130 | 112 | 109 | 127 | 4240 |
Attendances of Children at each Centre. | ||||||||
1922 | 2972 | 2045 | 1694 | 237 | 313 | 134 | 257 | 7652 |
1921 | 3340 | 2385 | 1922 | 271 | 369 | 56 | 322 | 8665 |
1920 | 1391 | 943 | 927 | 139 | 92 | 37 | 219 | 3748 |
1919 | 429 | 321 | 368 | 34 | 50 | 4 | 98 | 1304 |
1918 | 65 | 111 | 210 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 429 |
1917 | 36 | 32 | 95 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 170 | |
Totals | 8233 | 5837 | 5216 | 687 | 842 | 240 | 913 | 21968 |
Supply of Milk, etc. to Necessitous, Expectant and Nursing
Mothers and to Young Children. The approximate cost of
milk and dinners supplied to expectant and nursing mothers
during the year was as follows:—Dried Milk, £2,084 7s. 1d.;
Fresh Milk, £50 1s. 7d., and Dinners, £36 1s. 6d.
The economic circumstances scale under which milk was
distributed at cost price was as follows