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 1924
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CONTENTS.
General. Page
Constitution of Committees 1,2
Staff of Public Health Department 3
Introduction 4
Summary of Statistics 8
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Vital Statistics 8,9, 101
Acreage, Population and Dwellings 8, 9, 108
Marriages 9
Births 10
Illegitimate Births 11
Deaths in Borough and in Wards 12
„ in Age Periods 13
„ in Public Institutions 13
„ Senile 13
„ Causes and Age Distribution 103
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1924) 14-15
Infant Mortality 15-18, 104-107
Illegitimate Infant Deaths 18
Notification of Births Act 19
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 20
Centres 20-23
Hospital Provision 23
Nursing Facilities 24, 25
Health Visitors 25
Milk Order 26
Ante-Natal Work 26
V.D 27-30
Maternity Hospital 30-33
District Midwifery Service 33
Dental Clinic 34
Infant Welfare Exhibition 35
Infectious Diseases 37
Summary of Notifications 38,102
Bacteriological Examinations 43,50
Contacts 37,48
Smallpox 37
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria 39
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Encephalitis Lethargica 40
Puerperal Fever 41
Polio-Myelitis, Erysipelas, Ophthalmia Neonatorum 41-42
Tuberculosis 44-55
Cases Notified 44,55
Deaths from Tuberculosis 45
Localisation of Disease 46
Dispensary 47
„ (Report of) 47-52
Institutional Treatment 48
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 51
Care Committee 2,51
Non-Dispensary Patients 52,54
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 52
Summary Table 55,56
Zymotic Deaths 57
Chicken pox 57
Diarrhcea 57
Influenza 58
Measles and Whooping-Cough 59
Cancer 61