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Southall-Norwood 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall-Norwood]
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SUMMARY OF ZYMOTIC DISEASE VISITS.
(Miss Perrett.)
Visits paid to Infectious Cases:—
| Scarlet Fever | 128 | Antitoxin | 20 |
| „ „ Contacts | 1,039 | Swabs Taken | 252 |
| Diphtheria | 20 | Whooping-Cough | 14 |
| ,, Contacts | 190 | Eyes | 7 |
| Chicken-Pox | 24 | Small-Pox Contacts ... | 4 |
| Measles | 527 | Erysipelas | 19 |
| Tubercular | 205 | Miscellaneous Visits ... | 680 |
| Discharging Ears | 20 | ||
| Scabies | 72 | Total Visits paid during year | 3,271 |
| Pneumonia | 24 | ||
| Sore Throats. | 202 |
INFANT AND CHILD WELFARE.
Details of the administration of the Centre are the same as in
the report for 1919 except that there are now three infant consultation
days a week, on one of which new cases only are seen.
The number of notified births during the year was 471, the number
of births on the register was 675. The number of babies attending
the Centre during the year was 199. This proportion of 1 to 3.3
births is lower than would have been expected, and effort is needed
to increase the attendance of children from 1—5 years. The
number in the district as ascertained by a house-to-house visitation
was 1 271, whereas the number attending was only 254, and of these
most between 1—2 years.
Some idea of the valuable preventive work done at the Centre
can be obtained by comparing the mortality of the babies regularly
taken to the Centre with that of the babies not under the supervision
of the Centre.
Of the babies whose names were on the Register of the Clinic
8 died during the year. The cases are summarised in the following
table:—