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Battersea 1926

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1926

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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, 111
Population 9, 10
Marriages 10
Births and Birth-rates in Wards and Sub-districts 11-12
Illegitimate Births 12
Deaths in Borough 12
„ in Wards, and Age Periods 13
Death-rates in Sub-districts 14
Deaths in Public Institutions 14
„ Senile 14
„ Causes and Age Distribution 113
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1926) 19
Infant Mortality 15-17, 20, 114-117
Illegitimate Infant Deaths 17
Comparative Statistics, Metropolitan Boroughs 18
Notification of Births Act 21
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 21
Centres 21,22
Hospital Provision 23
Nursing Facilities 23
Health Visitors 24,25
Test-feeding (St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel) 26
Milk for necessitous persons 26
Ante-Natal Work 27-31
V.D. 31-33
Maternal Mortality 33-34
Maternity Hospital 34-37
District Midwifery Service 37
Dental Clinic 38
Infectious Diseases—(i.) Notifiable 40
Summary of Notifications 41
Bacteriological Examinations 56,64
Contacts 40
Small-pox 40
Scarlet Fever 42
Diphtheria 43
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 44
Encephalitis Lethargica, Puerperal Fever 44,45
Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1926 45
Polio-Myelitis 46
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 47
Erysipelas 48
Measles 48, 49
Whooping-Cough 50
Tuberculosis 50-61, 118-120
Cases Notified 50,51
Localisation of Disease 51
Non-notification 52
Deaths from Tuberculosis 52-54
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regs. 1924 52
Dispensary 54
,, (Report of) 55
Institutional Treatment 55
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 56
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 57
Care Committee 57
Training and Employment 57
Non-Dispensary Patients 57-59
Summary Table of Notifications 60-61
„ ,, Tuberculosis Scheme (Dispensary) 118-120