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Stoke Newington 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page.
Statistics and Social Conditions 6
Summary of Vital Statistics; Population; Births; Marriages;
Deaths ; Infant Mortality; Maternal Mortality.
General Provision of Health Services 16
Hospitals; Clinics and Treatment Centres; Public Health
Officers ; Home Nursing; Midwives.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 27
Scavenging ; Sanitary Inspection; Factories and Workshops;
Smoke Abatement; Schools; Health Education; Storm
Flooding; The Mortuary; Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act,
1919; Rag Flock Acts.
Housing 39
Housing Statistics, 1933; Housing Act, 1930; The L.C.C.
Housing Estates; Inspection and Action taken; Rent Restriction
Acts.
Inspection and Supervision of Food 49
Milk ; Meat and Other Goods; Food and Drugs Adulteration
Act.
Prevalence of and Control Over Infectious and Other
Diseases 55
Infectious Diseases Generally; Smallpox; Scarlet Fever;
Diphtheria and Immunisation; Enteric Fever; Puerperal Fever
and Pyrexia; Ophthalmia Neonatorum; Encephalitis Lethargica;
Measles; Whooping Cough; Isolation; Disinfecting and
Cleansing ; Tuberculosis.
Maternity and Child Welfare 75
Visits; Attendances at Centres; Pre-natal and Post-natal Clinic;
Dental Clinic; Birth Control; Infant Life Protection.
List of Streets for Guidance of Medical Practitioners, etc. 83