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Battersea 1925

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925

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CONTENTS.
General. Page
Constitution of Committees 1, 2
Staff of Public Health Department 3
Introduction 4, 5
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Natural and Social Conditions 9
Vital Statistics 8, 9, 107
Population 10
Marriages 11
Births and Birth-rates in Wards and Sub-districts 11-13
Illegitimate Births 13
Deaths in Borough 13
„ in Sub-districts, Wards, and Age Periods 14
„ in Public Institutions 15
„ Senile 15
„ Causes and Age Distribution 109
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1925) 16
Infant Mortality 17-20, 131-134
Illegitimate Infant Deaths 20
Comparative Statistics, Metropolitan Boroughs 21
Notification of Births Act 21
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 22
Centres 23,24
Hospital Provision 24, 25
Nursing Facilities 25, 26
Health Visitors 26, 27
Milk Order 28
Ante-Natal Work 29
V.D 30-35
Maternal Mortality 35
Maternity Hospital 37
District Midwifery Service 40
Dental Clinic 41
Infectious Diseases—(i.) Notifiable 42
Summary of Notifications 43
Bacteriological Examinations 61,68
Contacts 42
Small-pox 42
Scarlet Fever 44
Diphtheria 44
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 47
Encephalitis Lethargica, Puerperal Fever 48
Polio-Myelitis 49
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 50
Erysipelas 51
Measles 51
Whooping-Cough 53
Tuberculosis 54-66
Cases Notified 54,55
Localisation of Disease 56
Deaths from Tuberculosis 55,57
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regs. 1924 and 1925 57
Cases on Register 58
Dispensary 59
„ (Report of) 60
Institutional Treatment 61
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 61
Care Committee 62
Training and Employment 62
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 62
Non-Dispensary Patients 63,64
Summary Table 65,66