Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1923
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CONTENTS.
Page
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Vital Statistics 8, 9, 15, 116
Birthplaces of population 10
Marriages 10
Births 10
Illegitimate Births 12
Deaths 12
„ Causes and Age Distribution 118
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1923) 15
Infant Mortality 16,17,119-122
Illegitimate Infant Deaths 19
Notification of Births Act 19
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 20
Centres 20
Hospital Provision 22
Nursing Facilities 23
Health Visitors 24
Milk Order 24
Ante-Natal Work 25
V.D. 26
Maternity Hospital 28
District Midwifery Service 31
Dental Clinic 33
Infectious Diseases.—(i.) Notifiable 35
Summary of Notifications 34, 117
Bacteriological Examinations 26-28,40, 51
Contacts 35
Smallpox 35
Scarlet Fever 36
Diphtheria 37
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 38
Encephalitis Lethargica, Puerperal Fever 38
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 38
Polio-Myelitis, Erysipelas 40
Tuberculosis 41 61
Cases Notified 41,42
Localisation of Disease 42
Deaths from Tuberculosis 42
Dispensary 44
„ (Report of) 45 -55
Institutional Treatment 51,52
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 53
Care Committee 53
Non-Dispensary Patients 55
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 55
Summary Table 60,61
Zymotic Deaths 62
(ii.) Non-Notifiable Diseases 62,63
Chicken pox. Influenza 62
Diarrhœa 63
Measles 63
Whooping-Cough 64
Cancer 64