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 East Ham]
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ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN (Circular 2866)
The Council do not employ a social worker for the purpose of
the above Circular.
These duties are undertaken by the Superintendent Health
Visitor, and close co-operation is maintained with the Children's Officer.
TABLE 17. INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Pemphigus Neonatorum | Puerperal Pyrexia | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Domiciliary Confinements | Institutional Confinements | Domiciliary Confine-ments | Iastitu-tional Confinements | Domiciliary Confinements | Institutional Confinements | |
Number of cases notified during 1950 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Number of cases removed to hospital | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Number of cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum notified during the year, in which :-
(a) vision was unimpaired | 2 |
(b) vision was impaired | |
(c) vision was lost | |
(d) the patient died | |
(e) the patient was still under treatment at the end of the year | |
(f) the patient removed from district | |
(g) classification under above heads cannot be made |
(a) Number of women attended in the area at home or in nursing homes whose deaths were ascribed to pregnancy or childbirth during the years:-
(1) from sepsis | |
attended at home | Nil. |
attended In nursing homes | Nil. |
(ii) from other causes | |
attended at home | Nil. |
attended in nursing homes | Nil. |
(b) Number of women in (a) who died :- | |
(1) at home | Nil. |
(11) In nursing homes | Nil. |
(ill) after removal to hospital | Nil. |
(c) Total maternal deaths whether attended In the area or outside the Borough :-
(i) from sepsis | Nil. |
(11) from other causes | 1 |