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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

Heston and Isleworth 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

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1st visit to babies under one year11321029...913803754
Re-visits to babies and children up to five years47154484...424141503594
Inquiries made, elicited— Feeding—Natural870631...536516487
Artificial5954...436159
Both2351...414232
Sleeping with parents477354...319282248
Using Comforter300236...198285236
Mother working during pregnancy5645...564437
Ante-Natal. First visits102
Subsequent visits63
Infant Deaths. Visits paid41
Still Births2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3
Infantile Diarrhoea3
Puerperal Fever1
Measles and German Measles63Children under 5 years.
Whooping Cough56
Mumps12
Chicken Pox14
Pneumonia11
Bronchitis2
Milk and Food Cases40
Home Help13
Social Conditions54
Milk Samples2
Other visits121

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Health Visitors attendances at the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centres, 508.
The Health Visitors also paid 51 visits to Infectious Disease
cases, and patients notified as suffering from Tuberculosis, etc., and
9 special visits to the North Hyde Schools in connection with the
Diphtheria investigation.