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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 1936
[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 1936.
TABLE 15.
Original Visits.
Revisits .
Visits to AnteNatal
Cases.
Visits to PostNatal
Cases.
Visits to Foster
Children.
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
279
266
5
1204
14
—
331
—
64
—
139
—
69
—
2371
Miss Saver
298
235
2
1234
2
—
194
2
39
—
95
—
13
5
2119
Mrs. George
227
260
2
671
10
—
163
—
38
—
95
—
10
3
1479
Miss Rogers
164
212
1
1055
—
—
143
—
50
—
95
—
21
1
1742
Miss Cottrill
136
194
1
1431
6
—
72
4
54
1
92
—
77
2
2070
Miss Hinde
126
244
4
644
—
—
66
1
130
—
96
—
147
5
1463
Miss Adair
195
216
4
1356
5
—
280
38
101
1
95
—
141
1
2433
Miss Freeth
202
228
3
1064
27
—
196
4
165
—
88
—
21
1
1999
Miss Mason
136
118
—
871
2
—
99
—
68
6
136
—
217
3
1656
Total
1763
1973
22
9530
66
—
1544
49
709
8
931
—
716
21
17332