[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough].

  • Bethnal Green (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1931]
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    43 WORK OF HEALTH VISITORS. The following table gives some account of the out door work of the Health Visitors so far as this can be expressed in statistics:— Visits. Re-visits. Babies (under 1 year) 1.949 11,941 Children (1—2 years) 12 4,600 „ (2—3 years) 3 27 4,037 14,004 ,, (3—4 years) 5 2,8651 „ (4—6 years) 7 2,502 Mothers (Ante-natal) 915 410 „ (Post-natal) 20 16 Stillbirths 42 58 Visits. Re-visits. Infant Deaths 102 16 Maternal Deaths 3 1 Puerperal Fever (22) and Pyrexia (26) 14 34 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 19 60 Acute Poliomyelitis — 1 Other Notifiable Diseases 15 29 Diarrhoea and Enteritis 5 19 Measles (2,672), and German. Measles (3) 1,577 l,098 Whooping Cough 20 45 Other Non-notifiable Diseases 31 40 Milk Grants 11 1,103 Convalescent Treatment 9 7 Other matters 198 281 Futile Visits 150 2,459 Total Visits. 5,107 31,622 Grand Total 36,729 The Council is able, through the Health Visitors, to render considerable assistance to the London Hospital Maternity Charity by reporting on the home conditions and preparations of expectant mothers who have booked with that hospital for midwifery services. Liaison also exists with the L.C.C. School Medical Service, our child welfare record cards being transferred to the Divisional Medical Officer as the children attain the age of 5.