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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

Deptford 1934

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

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Table: Analysis of Visits paid by Health Visitors, 1934.To infants under 5 years

Analysis of Visits paid by Health Visitors, 1934.

To infants under 5 years

Enquiries reVisits.Re-visits.Total.
Births15881172113309
Still-births41—41
Infant deaths156—156
Ophthalmia Neonatorum273360
Measles6866871373
Suspected Measles90191
Infant Diarrhoea442367
Pneumonia4169110
Whooping Cough172112284
Poliomyelitis11213
Meningitis112
Scarlet Fever recoveries10913122
Scabies271643
Visits to Foster Children17112129
Miscellaneous visits1517158
Total (under 5 years)3,15112,80715,958
To infants over 5 years Enquiries re
Measles513339852
Suspected Measles31839
Scarlet Fever recoveries16214176
Whooping Cough10747154
Scabies403979
Poliomyelitis235
Encephalitis Lethargica—11
Pneumonia437
Visits to Foster Children56368
Miscellaneous visits42354477
Total (over 5 years)12875711858
Other visits
To expectant mothers10404111451
To Puerperal Fever or Pyrexia11920
Maternal death3-3
To Common Lodging Houses165268
Total other visits1,0704721,542
Unsuccessful visits90912412150
Totals6,41715,09121,508

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In the case of the 1,588 infants visited shortly after birth, it was
found that 1,427 infants were being breast-fed and 68 partly breast-fed.
Only 93 were entirely hand-fed.