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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
Hackney 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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inspection at such intervals as will Enable a record to be kept of
each child's health and sickness up to the time when the child
attends school and becomes the subject of school medical inspection."
I may here add that the Health Visitors, with a few exceptions,
are welcomed at the homes they visit. In a few cases, the visits
have been declined; in others, where at first the Visitors have
been received with reserve, this has disappeared on the object of
the visit being explained.
In no case am I aware of open hostility to the Visitors. The
following table gives details of the results of the visits of the Health
Visitors during the year 1917:—
Particulars respecting the Feeding, Care and Environment of the Infants visited at their homes, by the Health Visitors during the
year 1917.
| No. of Infants visited. | Method of Feeding. | Separate cot provided for Infant. | Use of Comforter. | Home conditions. | Secondary visits. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast | Artificial. | Mixed. | Yes. | No. | Yes. | No. | Satisfactory. | Un-satis-fac-tory. | ||
| 2,509 | 2,067 | 210 | 152 | 637 | 1.727 | 1,704 | 725 | 2,029 | 331 | 5,162 |
Home Nursing and Treatment of Disease.
Measles.—Early in the year, the Council resolved, in accordance
with the wish of the Local Government Board, to adopt
certain measures in the Borough with the object of combating as far
as possible, the high mortality attending measles. These measures
consist in:— (a) forwarding a printed leaflet on the precautions to
be taken to prevent the spread of this disease; (b) the visit of a
Health Visitor acting under the instruction of the Medical Officer