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CONTENTS.
Chapter XXIII.
page.
Public Health Reports—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and School Medical
Officer for the year 1914—Part I. (Vital Statistics and Administration).
Introduction
A—-Vital Statistics.—Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Decline of the marriage, birth and
death rates—-Infantile mortality—-Principal epidemic diseases—-Smallpox and vaccination—Measles—Scarlet
fever—Diphtheria—Whooping cough—Typhus—Typhoid fever—Diarrhoea
and enteritis—Erysipelas—Puerperal fever—Phthisis—Cancer—Influenza, bronchitis and
pneumonia—-Cerebro-spinal meningitis—Influenza and cerebro-spinal fever—Poliomyelitis
and polio-encephalitis—Anthrax—Glanders—Cholera and plague—Pemphigus neonatorum—
Meteorology
B—Administration.—Dairies, cowsheds and milkshops—Offensive businesses-—Nuisances—Housing
of the Working Classes—Underground rooms—Overcrowding—Houses let in lodgings—Death
rates in Council's dwellings—Common lodging houses—Phthisis in common lodging houses—•
Seamen's lodging houses—Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897, etc.—Vermin inquiry-—Water supply
to tenement houses—Bevenue Act, 1903—Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 —Places where
food is prepared for sale—Inspection of food—Fried fish vendors and fish curers—Shelters—
Mortuaries—Inspection of theatres, music halls, etc.—Homeless persons—Mental Deficiency
Act, 1913—National Insurance Act, 1911 (Treatment of Tuberculosis)—Maternity and child
welfare—Midwives Act—Work of the chemical and analytical branch of the Public Health
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Chapter XXIV.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and
School Medical Officer for the year 1914—Part II. (Education).
Introductory Note.—Medical inspection and treatment—" Following up "—Government grants—
Personal hygiene scheme—Special reports of school doctors ... ... ... ... ... 81
Medical Inspection 85
Medical and Dental Treatment 98
" Following-up "—Organising staff for children's care work 105
Be-Inspection 106
Provision of Meals for Necessitous Children 108
Children Out of School for Long Periods 109
Tuberculosis 110
Open-Air Schools—Birley House—Shooter's Hill 112
Playground Classes 116
School Journeys Undertaken during 1914 118
Bemedial Exercises 118
Personal Hyigene—Inspection—Verminous heads—Verminous persons and clothing—Action taken
in the homes by local authorities—Inculcation of habits of cleanliness—Scabies—
Children's Country Holiday Fund 119
Examination of Candidates—For the permanent service—Teachers and county scholars 123
Medical Inspection—(Training colleges, secondary and trade schools) 124
Besidential Institutions—Industrial schools—Places of detention 125
Infectious Diseases—Scarlet fever—Diphtheria—Measles—Whooping cough—Elementary schools
under observation—School closures—Bingworm and favus—Besidential, industrial and special
schools—Places of detention 126
Schools for Defective Children 132
Chapter XXV.
Public Health—Powers and duties—Tuberculosis—Milk—Homeless persons—Common
Lodging Houses—Seamen's Lodging Houses—-Nuisances—Offensive businessesAppeal
Committee—Midwives—Lying-in Homes—Infant Life Protection—Employment
of Children—Diseases of Animals 44
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