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St Pancras 1919

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1919

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CONTENTS—continued.
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Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 37
Tuberculosis 38
St. Pancras Scheme 43
Visiting 43
Tuberculosis Dispensaries 44
Sanatoria, etc 45
Smallpox 45
Scarlet Fever 46
Diphtheria 48
Typhoid Fever 49
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 50
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 50
Encephalitis Lethargica 51
Malaria 52
Dysentery 52
Trench Fever 52
Pneumonia 52
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 53
Influenza 53
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 53
Syphilis 53
Cancer 55
Section Y.— Maternity and Child
Welfare 55
Notification of Births 55, 62
Advice Cards 56
Home Visiting 57
Centres 57
Dental Clinic 60
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children 61
Supply of Food to Mothers and
Children 61
Home for ailing Children 62
Midwifery Work 62
Widowed, deserted and unmarried
mothers and their children 64
Home Helps 74
Home Nursing 75
Government Grants 75
Puerperal Fever 76
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 76
Measles and German Measles 77
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Whooping Cough 78
Infantile Diarrhoea 79
Section YI.—Sanitary Administration.
Staff 79
Chemical and Bacteriological Work 80
Section YI1—Other Services. 81
Home Nursing 81
Section YIII.—Housing 81
Tenement House evil 81
General Housing conditions 86
Overcrowding 86
Fitness of Houses 87
Water Supply 90
Closet accommodation 90
Refuse Disposal 90
Unhealthy Areas 91
By-laws relating to Houses let in
Lodgings, etc 91
General and Miscellaneous 91
Work of Special Housing Committee 92
Appendix.
Table No. 1. Vital Statistics 100
Do. 2. Deaths from all causes 101
Do. 3. Summary of above 105
Do. 4. Births, Deaths and
Infantile Deaths 106
Do. 5. Do., certain large
towns and Metropolitan
Boroughs 107
Do. 6. Meteorology 108
Do. 7. Inspections and reinspections
(District
and other Inspectors) 109
Do. 8. Do. (Food Inspectors) 110
Do. 9. Visits by Women Inspectors
112
Do. 10. Inspections and reinspections
by individual
Inspectors 113
Tables Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14.
Details of Intimation Notices served
and resulting Statutory Notices 114