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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 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: The Work of the Health Visitors .—The work performed by these officers during the year with regard to maternity and child welfare is summarised in the following Table :—TABLE No. 6.

The Work of the Health Visitors .—The work performed by these officers during the year with regard to maternity and child welfare is summarised in the following Table :—

TABLE No. 6.

Births—First visits1,986
,, Revisits16,321
Infant deaths investigated40
Still-births investigated6
Expectant mothers—home visits908
Infectious diseases :—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum—First visits26
,, Revisits11
Measles—First visits2,281
„ Revisits1,153
Puerperal fever—First visits ..5
,, „ Revisits4
Puerperal Pyrexia—First visits21
,, ,, Revisits4
Zymotic Enteritis— First visits38
,, ,, Revisits11
Pneumonia76
Anterior Poliomyelitis1
Encephalitis Lethargica1
Infant Life Protection921
Visits unclassified480
Visits unsuccessful2,890
27,184

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Following their usual practice the Council gave the necessary facilities to two
health visitors to attend refresher courses, and paid their expenses.
Infant Life Protection.—The Council became responsible on the 1st April,
1933, for Infant Life Protection work in Woolwich. At the beginning of the year,
four of their Health Visitors acted as Infant Life Protection Visitors (part-time),
but in September, all the Health Visitors were appointed Infant Life Protection
Visitors for their particular districts. When evasion of the law is suspected the
necessary investigations are made by one of the male sanitary inspectors. The
houses of all new foster mothers are inspected by the district sanitary inspectors,
who furnish in each case a sanitary report.