London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1921
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Page
Vital Statistics 9
Births 10
Illegitimate Births 12
Marriages 10
Deaths 12
,, (in Age Periods and in Areas) 13
„ (in Public Institutions) 14
,, (Senile) 14
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, etc.
(1857-1921) 16
Infant Mortality 17
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Notification of Births Act 19
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 20
Centres 22, 36
Nursing 23
Health Visitors 24
Milk Orders 25
Ante-Natal Work 29, 30
Institutional Treatment 29
V.D. 30
Maternity Hospital 32
District Midwife 34
Dental Clinic 35
Infectious Diseases.
Summary 37, 38
Bacteriological Examinations 42, 46
Contacts 37
Small-pox 37
Scarlet Fever 37
Diphtheria 39
Enteric Fever, Erysipelas, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 40
Encephalitis Lethargica, Puerperal Fever 40
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 41
Polio-Myelitis 42
Tuberculosis— 42
Dispensary 44
,, (Report of) 45-47
Institutional Treatment 46
Open-Air School 46
Care Committee 47
Women and Children 47-50
Localization 51
Summary Tables 51-52
Zymotic Deaths 53
Non-Notifiable Diseases 54-55
Chicken-pox, Influenza, Diarrhoea 54
Measles, Whooping Cough 55