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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
Southwark 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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HEALTH WORK.
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 1935.
TABLE 15.
| Original Visits. | Revisits . | Visits to Ante-Natal Cases. | Visits to Post-Natal Cases. | Visits to Foster Children . | 1 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. Kingsmill | 241 | 15 | 5 | 1210 | 2 | 323 | 141 | _ | 114 | _ | 28 | 5 | 2084 | |||
| Miss Saver | 340 | 15 | - | 1356 | - | - | 246 | — | 35 | — | 94 | 25 | - | 2111 | ||
| Mrs. George | 235 | 15 | 1 | 827 | - | - | 156 | 20 | 43 | — | 94 | — | 10 | 3 | 1404 | |
| Miss Rogers | 171 | 10 | 2 | 1255 | - | - | 110 | 4 | 74 | — | 94 | — | 12 | — | 1732 | |
| Miss Cottrill | 201 | 57 | 1 | 1115 | 9 | - | 95 | 45 | 65 | — | 94 | — | 22 | — | 1704 | |
| Miss Hinde | 137 | 8 | 4 | 1042 | - | - | 60 | — | 174 | 3 | 96 | — | 51 | 3 | 1578 | |
| Miss Adair | 141 | 16 | 1 | 1406 | 5 | - | 108 | 77 | 72 | — | 92 | — | 24 | 3 | 1945 | |
| Miss Freeth | 211 | 7 | 8 | 1370 | - | - | 224 | 346 | 287 | — | 94 | 23 | 4 | 2574 | ||
| Miss Mason | 144 | 1 | 3 | 695 | - | - | 95 | 4 | 59 | 2 | 118 | — | 123 | 2 | 1246 | |
| Mrs. George (home help) (To Oct. 10th, 1935) | 301 | 15 | 316 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1821 | 144 | 25 | 10276 | 16 | - | 1417 | 496 | 950 | 5 | 1191 | — | 333 | 20 | 16694 | |