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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 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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(а) On the card of every child under one year of age attending a welfare
centre between 15th June and 25th July, was inserted once, and once
only, the terms " Breast," or "Breast and Hand," or "Hand Fed."
(b) The child's age was taken on the day on which this note was made,
(c) At the end of the period the results were summarised for the whole
Borough and the appropriate percentages worked out.
TABLE No. 70.
Feeding of Infants attending Welfare Centres—15th June to 25th July, 1931.
| Method of Feeding. | AGE IN MONTHS. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 6-7 | 7-8 | 8-9 | Total | 9-10 | 10-11 | 11-12 | Grand Total. | |
| Breast | 36 | 85 | 75 | 49 | 42 | 30 | 31 | 20 | 15 | 383 | 5 | 1 | - | 389 |
| Breast and Hand | 3 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 88 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 109 |
| Hand | 10 | 11 | 38 | 32 | 23 | 36 | 38 | 28 | 41 | 257 | 49 | 54 | 65 | 425 |
| 49 | 103 | 125 | 92 | 74 | 76 | 73 | 63 | 73 | 728 | 67 | 62 | 66 | 923 | |
| Percentages: | ||||||||||||||
| Breast | 73.5 | 82.5 | 60.0 | 53.3 | 56.7 | 39.5 | 42.5 | 31.8 | 20.5 | 52.6 | 7.5 | 16 | . | 42 1 |
| Breast and Hand | 6.1 | 6.8 | 9.6 | 11.9 | 12.2 | 131 | 5.5 | 23.8 | 23.3 | 12.1 | 19.4 | 11.3 | 1.5 | 11.8 |
| Hand | 20.4 | 10.7 | 30.4 | 34.8 | 31 1 | 47.4 | 520 | 44.4 | 56.2 | 35.3 | 731 | 87.1 | 98.5 | 46.1 |
Artificial Sunlight Clinic. This Clinic was opened in October, 1927. The
total number of patients treated during the year, including 79 whose course of
treatment was not completed at the end of 1930, was 437. The total number of
treatments given was 9,976. Of these, 7,370 were by carbon arc, 2,215 by mercury
vapour lamp, and 391 by radiant heat lamp.
The clinic is under the medical supervision of Dr. J. E. A. Lynham, who has
furnished the following report on the year's work:—
" The number of patients referred for treatment was larger, the increase
being mostly in the class of patient who was suffering from general debility.
A considerable number of these responded rapidly to treatment, but in many
instances improvement was slow, and it was found necessary to continue
treatment over a prolonged period.
There was also a greater number of new cases of rickets than in previous
years. A majority of the patients responded extremely well, and many
were rapidly cured, but there have been a few who proved refractory.
Where bone deformities were seen the children were invariably referred
to the remedial clinic of the Invalid Children's Aid Association.