[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C.

  • Woking (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bh2' Oe, Efn8laf “d Wales rate was 105 P- 1.000 ths. Only four deaths occurred last year from infantile morLTi 1 °ne °f ‘!le m°St fr6<1Uent “ «f high - - * oartl'o? t8rvT °f m°rtality in th9 more denseIy populated parts of the district is counter-balanced by the low rates in tne rural parts. The Bye-laws relating to Nuisances were revised during year and are now before the Local Government Board. ne ol the alterations proposed is the requirement that all inanuie pits shall be emptied once a week instead of once a month as at present. This alteration should tend to lower tne infant mortality. The circular letter from the Local Government Board cealmg with infantile mortality was received in August and its consideration postponed until January of this year as it «as t ien expected that the County Council’s Tuberculosis Nurse would by that time have been appointed and it was contemplated that a share of her time would be available 1 the Urban Council as a Health Visitor. Letters were received at the end of September from the omen s Unemployment Committee of the War Committee 01 oung and Horsell, also from the Women’s Liberal Association and the Women’s Co-Operative Guild urging ie Council to press forward a scheme for the establishment of a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre. \ advlSe<1 the Public Ilea,tb Committee that it would be undesirable to have more than one health visitor covering >e same ground m the district and that if she were appointed 01 tuberculosis work and as School Nurse confined her work to Woking and Horsell only she could at first at any rate devote sufficient time to the duties required from a health visitor in addition.