London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Wandsworth 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Maternity and Child Welfare.
Table XXXIV. gives the full details of the work carried
out at the 12 Centres in the Borough.
2,989 new infants were examined during the year and the
total attendances were 58,311. There were 782 ante-natal cases
and the total attendances made by them was 1,992.
The visits made by the Superintendents of the six Centres
where those officers are appointed by the Centre Committees
were 7,986 to the homes of infants and 1,148 to ante-natal cases.
No visits are shown in this Table for the other six centres, where
the Superintendents are Health Visitors, as their visits are included
in Table XXXI. which shews all the work carried out by
the Health Visitors.
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