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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

Stepney 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Arrangements were continued during the year for the medical records at the
Infant Welfare Centres to be forwarded to the Head Teachers of Schools in the
Borough. Cards are received from the Education Department of the London
County Council of children under 5 years of age entered on the rolls of the
infants departments. The medical records are filled in on these cards by the
Health Visitors and forwarded to the schools concerned. If no record is
available at the centre the particulars are obtained at the homes.
Medical
Records of
School
Children.

Table: MUNICIPAL CENTRES.

MUNICIPAL CENTRES.

Limehouse.Mile End.St. George's.Spitalfields.Wapping.White-chapel.Total.
Mile End RoadBurdett Road
Mon.Wed.Thurs.Thurs.Wed.Tues.Fri.Tues.Thurs.Tues.Fri.Wed.
No. of Sessions (total)485151525250515152555052615
Attendances of Infants1,6881,575-2,1452,2081,8781,2616211,4461,0752591,25215 ,408
„ „ Children 1 to 5934935-1,4901,1201,6591,1614961,23344822781010,513
„ Infants on Registers at end of the year197-10613120114612466971
„ Children on Registers at end of the year466-2111824532501321551,849
„ Ante-Natal Sessions--51---------51
„ „ New Cases--143---------143
,, ,,Subsequent Attendances--274---------274
„ Doctors' Consultations485151515250515150-52507

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Convalescent
Treatment.
The following table shows the approximate quantity and cost of milk, etc.
distributed during the year:—
No. of
Applications
granted.
No. of
persons.
Quantity.
£.
Cost
s.
d.
Cows Milk—
Free
6,980
8,874
31,086¼ gals.
3,382
19
1
Half-Price
44
56
196 „
10
7
1
Dried—
Free
3,308
3,727
18,074 lbs.
1,421
17
5
Half-Price
34
38
182 „
7
3
1
Virol, etc.
Free
2,018
2,306
l,879½ lbs.
137
19
3
Half-Price
7
8
5½„
4
3
Total
12,391
15,009
31,282¼. gals.
20,141 lbs.
4,960
10
2
Provision of
Milk and
Meals to
Expectant
and Nursing
Mothers and
to Children.
Dinners are supplied by the Stepney Invalid Kitchen, White Horse Street,
on the grounds of health, to expectant and nursing mothers who are in necessitous
circumstances. The Council pay (id. towards the cost of each of the
dinners and the period during which the dinners are supplied is four weeks.
The number of dinners supplied during the year was 2,242, at a cost to the
Council of £56 1s. 0d.