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Lambeth 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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Official Staff (Public Health Department) 2
Introductory Letter 3-4
Vital Statistics 6-67
Estimated populations, 1923 6-7
Births and Birth-rates 8-10
Notification of Births Act 11-12
Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 12-14
Municipal Milk Depot and Infants Consultations Centre 15-16
Lambeth Milk Assistance Scheme (Free or Aided Supplies) 16-17
Deaths and Death-rates (General, Infantile and Zymotic) 17-27
Lambeth Nursing (Infectious Diseases) Scheme 29
Infectious Diseases 28-50
(a) Notifiable 28-47
(b) Non-Notifiable 48-50
(c) Tuberculosis Regulations 34-37
Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme 38-43
(d) Dental Treatment of Tuberculosis Dispensary Patients 44 —45
(e) Polio-myelitis (polio-encephalitis), Cerebro-spinal Fever,
Encephalitis Lethargica 46-47
(f) " Contacts " or " Suspects," " Carriers," &c. 50
Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory 51
Local Government Board, Old Table A 52-55
Local Government Board, Old Table B. 56-57
Local Government Board, New Tables I., II., III., and IV. 58-63
Mortality Tables (corrected deaths) 64-66
(a) Registration Sub-Districts 64-65
(b) Age-Periods 64-65
(c) Summary 66
Summary of Vital and Mortal Statistics, 1923 67
Sanitary Work 68-92
Notices served 68-70
(а) Infectious Diseases 68
(б) General Nuisances and Drainage Defects 68-70
Male Sanitary Inspectors 70-72
Registration of Cowhouses, Slaughterhouses, Common Lodging
Houses and Milk Shops 72-73
Offensive Trades 74
Female Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors 74-76
Factories and Workshops and Out-Workers 77
Housing Department 77-86
Disinfecting Department 86-87
Analysis of Food and Drugs and Water 88-89
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations 89-90
Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1922-23 91-92
Ice Cream Vendors 92
Mortuaries and Coroners' Courts 92
Appendices—
I. Housing Conditions, 1923 (Ministry of Health Table) 93-95
II. Housing Survey, 1919 and 1922 96-97
III. Housing Statistics (Empty Premises), 1923 98-101