[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough].

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1943?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 Visits paid by Health Visitors are enumerated in detail below:- District No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 Total Visits. First visits 122 127 157 203 149 197 136 109 168 93 1,461 Subsequent Visits. Under 1 year 382 685 600 405 431 456 1,108 487 386 388 5,328 1-5 Years 712 590 615 338 515 555 274 822 751 165 5,337 Outs 381 204 516 718 338 563 433 225 317 278 3,973 Removals 67 58 159 56 80 137 29 79 73 39 771 Other Visits. Infant Deaths 10 15 5 6 9 23 6 8 6 4 92 Stillbirths 1 3 4 8 8 6 — 2 1 4 37 Ophthalmia Neona¬ torum 4 4 1 1 2 3 2 - - 2 19 Puerperal Fever - 1 1 — 2 1 — — — 2 7 Puerperal Pyrexia 3 1 — 2 2 •) — — 1 1 12 Epidemic Diarrhœa 3 9 9 9 7 14 1 5 13 5 75 Encephalitis Lethar¬ gica - - - - - - - - - - - Polio-Myelitis - - - - - - - - - - - Measles 6 17 16 1 8 16 — 24 40 — 128 Diphtheria - - - - - - - - - - - Cerebro-Spinal Fever - - - - - - - - - — Pneumonia - - - - - - 1 — — 1 Chicken pox 3 — 3 1 — — 1 3 — — 11 Whooping Cough 4 — 6 14 14 5 2 3 2 — 50 Scabies — — — — — — - — — — Child Life Protection 10 20 25 28 29 22 5 2 38 13 192 Diphtheria Immuni¬ sation 39 — 72 45 41 — 50 29 30 9 315 Home Helps 3 10 22 6 8 8 8 5 5 8 83 Evacuation Scheme — — — — — — — — — — Convalescent — — — — — — — — — — 4 Free Milk — — — 4 — — — — — — — Special 2 5 — 11 21 12 — 11 3 6 71 Rest Centres — — — — — — — — — — — Tuberculosis 256 256 269 109 274 210 272 139 253 339 2,377 Adoption 1 — — — — 2 — — — — 3 Ante-natal. First Visits 97 103 158 107 77 138 99 71 112 51 1,013 Subsequent Visits 192 90 98 100 98 88 6 90 48 21 831 Total Visits 2,298 2,198 2,736 2,172 2,113 2,458 2,432 2,115 2,247 1,428 22,197 Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres 105 124 124 115 113 117 96 119 106 61 1,080 Attendances at Ante natal Clinics 59 36 29 59 90 101 56 72 85 55 642 Attendances at Tuber culosis Clinics 14 24 18 11 13 13 29 15 22 146 305 Attendances at Diph theria Immunisation Clinics 14 40 10 13 22 20 21 22 29 9 200 Number of insanitary conditions reported 1 17 30 — 7 3 12 — — 2 72