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Chelsea 1922

Annual report for 1922 of the Medical Officer of Health

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
Population of Chelsea 3
Births and Birth-rate 3
Notification of Births 3
Maternity and Child Welfare 4
Infant Mortality 4
Work of Health Visitors 4
Ante-Natal and Infant Clinics 5
Maternity Nurse and Midwife 5-6
Home-help 6
Chelsea Day Nursery 6
Chelsea Red Cross Nursing Home for Infants 7
Chelsea Branch of I.C.A.A. 7
Supply of Milk at less than cost price 7
Deaths and Death-Rate 8
Birth and Death-rates of Special Classes 8
Infant Mortality Rates and Deaths, 1-5 years 8
Infectious Diseases 9
Influenza and Pneumonia 11
Tuberculosis 11
Chelsea Tuberculosis Dispensary 12
Cancer and deaths in Asylums 13
Encephalitis Lethargica and Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 13
Puerperal Fever and Ophthalmia Neonatorum 13
Venereal Disease Diagnosis 14
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 15
Housing of the Working Classes 15
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 16
Cleansing Station for Verminous Children 17
Work of the Public Health Department 17
Summary of Work in 1922 19
Magisterial Proceedings 22-23