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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
East Ham 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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7. Infectious Diseases.
| Disease. | Number of cases notified during the year. | N umber of cases visited by officers of the Council. | Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council. | Number of cases removed to hospitals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 6 | - | 2 |
| (2) Pemphigus Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | - | |
| (3) Puerperal fever | 10 | 10 | - | 10 |
| (4) Puerperal pyrexia | 14 | 14 | - | 11 |
| (5) Measles and German measles (in children under 5 years of age) | Not notification | - | ||
| (6) Whooping Cough (do.) | Not notification | |||
| (7) Epidemic diarrhoea (do.) | Not notification | - | - | |
| (8) Poliomyelitis (do.) | — | — | — | |
8. Home Nursing.
(а) Number of nurses employed at the end of the year for the nursing of
expectant mothers and children under 5 years of age, maternity
nursing, or the nursing of puerperal fever:—
(i) by the Council, Nil.
(ii) by Voluntary Associations, Nil.
(b) Total number of cases attended during the year by these nurses, Nil.
9. Midwives.
(а) Number practising in the area served by the Council for maternity
and child welfare at the end of the year, 52.
(b) Number (i) employed by the Council, Nil.
(ii) subsidised by the Council, Nil.
(iii) employed by Voluntary Associations, 42.
(c) Number of cases attended by midwives during the year:—
(i) as midwives, 902.
(ii) as maternity nurses, 25.
(d) Number of cases during the year in which the Council paid or contributed
to the fee of a midwife, Nil.
10. Maternal Deaths.
(a) Number of women who died in, or in consequence of, childbirth in
the area served by the Council for maternity and child welfare during
the year:—
(i) from sepsis, 4.
(ii) from other causes, 4.
(b) Number of these cases which died :—
(i) at home, 2.
(ii) in institutions, 6,