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Southwark 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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The number of visits made by the Health Visitors and other officers of the Public Health Department to houses in connection with Births, and other Health Work during 1931.
| Original Visits. | Revisits . | Visits to Ante-Natal Cases. | Visits to Post-Natal Cases. | Visits to Delicate Infants. | Visits to Cases of Diarrhoea and Sick Children. | Attendances at Welfare Centres. | Visits where Mothers were found to be out. | Special Visits, etc. | Puerperal Pyrexia. | Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Measles. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Births. | Measles. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | ||||||||||
| Mrs. Holland (to Oct. 12th) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 244 | — | — | — | 244 |
| Mrs. Kingsmill | 329 | 47 | 3 | 3067 | 9 | — | 202 | — | — | — | 142 | 8 | — | 6 | 3813 |
| Miss Saver | 432 | 20 | 1 | 2431 | 2 | — | 185 | — | — | — | 97 | 274 | 2 | 3 | 3447 |
| Miss Cleverley | 282 | 14 | 4 | 2162 | — | — | 87 | 2 | — | — | 139 | 193 | 2 | 4 | 2389 |
| Miss Rogers | 252 | 22 | 1 | 2591 | 3 | — | 72 | — | — | — | 92 | 220 | 1 | 1 | 3255 |
| Miss Cottrill | 277 | 60 | 7 | 2620 | 20 | — | 47 | — | — | — | 90 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 3161 |
| Miss Hinde | 229 | 72 | 6 | 2733 | 17 | — | 68 | — | — | 1 | 94 | 361 | 4 | 10 | 3595 |
| Miss Adair | 191 | 12 | 2 | 3648 | — | — | 87 | — | — | — | 94 | — | — | 5 | 4039 |
| Miss Freeth | 370 | 20 | 1 | 3446 | 2 | — | 151 | — | — | — | 98 | 83 | 1 | 3 | 4175 |
| Mrs. George | 205 | 15 | 1 | 2517 | — | — | 74 | — | — | 1 | 107 | 106 | 2 | 7 | 3035 |
| Mrs. George (home help) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 478 | — | 28 | — | 506 |
| Total | 2567 | 282 | 26 | 25215 | 53 | — | 973 | 2 | — | 2 | 1675 | 1275 | 47 | 42 | 32159 |
The mortality rate was 1.20 per 1,000 as against 1.17 per 1,000 in
1930.
The following tables give, in tabular form, the number of cases of
Tuberculosis on the Medical Officer's Register; the number of new cases
coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, and the number
of deaths from Tuberculosis for the period under review.
PHTHISIS.
TABLE 46.
Notification Register.
Pulmonary.
Non-Pulmonary.
Total Cases.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Number of cases of Tuberculosis
remaining at the
31st December, 1931,
on the Registers of Notifications
kept by the
Medical Officer of Health
of the Metropolitan
Borough
763
478
1241
303
233
536
1777
Number of cases removed
from the Register(s)
during the year by reason
inter alia of:—
178
120
298
31
27
58
356
(1) Withdrawal of notification
49
38
87
14
14
28
115
(2) Recovery from the
disease
6
11
17
4
9
13
30
(3) Deaths
123
71
194
13
4
17
211