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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
Woolwich 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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The following Table shows the classification of visits paid
by the Health Visitors in 1928.
TABLE No. 72.
| Births—First visits | 1,971 |
| ,, Revisits | 13,540 |
| Infant deaths investigated | 46 |
| Still-births investigated | 25 |
| Expectant mothers—home visits | 448 |
| Infectious diseases:— Ophthalmia Neonatorum—First visit | 13 |
| ,, ,, Revisits | 16 |
| Measles—First visits | 1,896 |
| ,, Revisits | 603 |
| Puerperal fever—First visits | 14 |
| ,, „ Revisits | 19 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia—First visits | 23 |
| ,, ,, Revisits | 3 |
| Zymotic Enteritis—First visits | 1 |
| „ ,, Revisits | — |
| Tuberculosis | 43 |
| Pneumonia | 70 |
| Anterior Poliomyelitis | 4 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 18 |
| Sunlight Clinic visits | 68 |
| Visits unclassified | 305 |
| Visits unsuccessful | 1,665 |
| 20,791 |
In 1928, the Council, with the approval of the Ministry of
Health, paid the class fees of two health visitors at a refresher
course for Health Visitors. Since 1921, the Council's Health
Visitors have, in turn, attended these refresher courses. At
these courses Health Visitors not only learn about the modern
advances in infant hygiene but have an opportunity of