[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

  • Hastings (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Home Visiting. The chief duty of tlie Health Visitors appointed by the Council, namely Miss Grant, and Miss Andrew, who succeeded Miss Myers in October, is the home visiting of mothers and young children. Their visits during the year were as follows:— To Expectant Mothers (1) 1st Visits, 197 (2) Total Visits, 382. To Infants under 1 (1) 1st Visits, 982 (2) Total Visits, 4,635. To Children 1-5 Total Visits, 1,612. With few exceptions mothers under the encouragement of the Health Visitors, breast feed their infants at least for the first few months of life. # Infant Feeding. Babies born in 1920 and regularly visited by the Health Visitors. Reasons. Reasons. District. No. of Cases regularly visited. Breast Fed {b Months) Mixed. Health. Work. Un- willing. Bottle Fed Health. Work. Un- i willing. Hastings 435 275 130 Il8 8 4 30 26 3 I St. Leonards 340 197 91 «5 5 I 52 39 6 7 Totals ... 775 472 221 203 13 5 82 65 9 8 These figures may be considered quite satisfactory. It is satisfactory to report that the ill-devised bottle with the rubber tube has practically vanished from the District. Supply of Milk. Owing to the high price of milk, and to the extent of unem- ployment, extra milk, chiefly fresh but sometimes dried, was supplied in necessitous cases to nursing and expectant mothers and to infants and children under 5 years of age by the Health Visitors on the written authority in each case of the Medical Officer of Health, after careful enquiry as to the circumstances of the persons receiving relief. The making of these enquiries added greatly to the work of the Health Visitors. The nett expenditure of the Council in the provision of milk and glaxo in 1920 was £471, as compiired with £46 in 1919.
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