Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Analysis of Visits paid by Health Visitors, 1935.
To infants under 5 years Enquiries re | Visits. | Re-visits. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|
Births | 1486 | 13132 | 14618 |
Still-births | 38 | – | 38 |
Infant deaths- | 77 | – | 77 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 18 | 21 | 39 |
Measles | 73 | 61 | 134 |
Suspected Measles | 1 | – | 1 |
Infant Diarrhœa | 11 | 10 | 21 |
Pneumonia " | 21 | 23 | 44 |
Whooping Cough | 75 | 75 | 150 |
Meningitis | 3 | – | 3 |
Scarlet Fever recoveries | 62 | 10 | 72 |
Scabies | 31 | 35 | 66 |
Visits to Foster Children | 19 | 100 | 119 |
Miscellaneous visits | 245 | 8 | 253 |
Total (under 5 years) | 2,160 | 13,475 | 15,635 |
Measles | 78 | 57 | 135 |
Scarlet Fever recoveries | 64 | 18 | 82 |
Whooping Cough | 66 | 39 | 105 |
Scabies | 96 | 80 | 176 |
Poliomyelitis | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | – | 1 | 1 |
Pneumonia - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Visits to Foster Children | 7 | 67 | 74 |
Miscellaneous visits | 304 | 82 | 386 |
Total (over 5 years) | 619 | 348 | 967 |
To expectant mothers - | 1035 | 523 | 1558 |
To Puerperal Fever or Pyrexia - | 5 | 7 | |
To Common Lodging Houses- | 16 | 41 | 57 |
Total other visits | 1,056 | 566 | 1,622 |
Unsuccessful visits | 686 | 1140 | 1826 |
Totals | 4,521 | 15,529 | 20,050 |
In the case of the 1,486 infants visited shortly after birth, it was
found that 1,332 infants were being breast-fed and 85 partly breast-fed.
Only 69 were entirely hand fed.