London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Barnes 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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* Table 30.—Home-Visiting.
A summary of the work performed by the three Health Visitors during the year is given below :—
| Visits to expectant mothers | 869 |
| First visits to newly-born infants | 811 |
| Revisits to infants under 1 year | 2,074 |
| Visits to children aged 1 to 5 years | 2,052 |
| Still-birth inquiries | 3 |
| Special visits to cases of measles | 154 |
| „ „ „ whooping cough | 69 |
| Visits to foster children | 64 |
| Visits in connection with infectious diseases other | |
| than those above specified | 542 |
| Total visits | 6,638 |
*Table 31.— Social Welfare Worker. Care of Unmarried Mothers and their Children.
| Number of cases brought to the notice of the department during the year:— | |||
| through local authority records, clinics, health visitors | 27 | ||
| by nursing homes, hospitals, police, clergy, etc. | 14 | ||
| bymothers themselves | 20 | ||
| Total | 61 | ||
| Number of cases visited for the first time during the year | 61 | ||
| „ ,, home-visits and revisits to all known cases | 643 | ||
| ,, „ visits to employers, relatives, institutions, hostels, etc. in connection with cases | 472 | ||
| 1,182 | |||
| Number of mothers :— | |||
| (a) admitted to :— | |||
| ante-natal or post-natal homes | 14 | ||
| long-stay training homes | — | ||
| short-stay shelters | 25 | ||
| special homes for confinements | 8 | ||
| (b) for whom :— | |||
| residential employment was found | 21 | ||
| non-residential employment was found | 16 | ||
| housing accommodation was found | 2 | ||
| arrangements were made for return to native land | 2 | ||
| Number of mothers concerned who were, at the end of the year living:— | |||
| with child | without child | Total | |
| as married | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| in own homes with husbands (extra-marital) | — | 1 | 1 |
| with parents or relatives | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| at homes of employers (residential employment) | 15 | - | 15 |
| in lodgings | — | 9 | 9 |
| in institutions or hostels | 3 | - | 3 |