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CONTENTS.
General. Page.
Constitution of Committees 1-2
Staff of Public Health Department 3
Introduction 4-5
Summary of Statistics 8
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Vital Statistics 9,108
Population 9
Marriages 10
Births and Birth-rates in Wards and Sub-districts 10- 11
Illegitimate Births 11
Deaths in Borough 11-12
Death-rates in Sub-districts 13
Deaths in Public Institutions and Senile Mortality 13-14
Causes and Age Distribution 110
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1927) 18
Infant Mortality 14-16, 19, 111-114
Illegitimate Infant Deaths 17
Comparative Statistics, Metropolitan Boroughs 17
Notification of Births Act and Still-births Registration 20
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 21
Centres 21-22
Hospital Provision 23
Southwark Diocesan Homes 23
Nursing Facilities 24
Health Visitors 24-25
Test-feeding (St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel) 25
Milk and Dinners for necessitous persons 26
Convalescent Homes 26-27
Ante-Natal Work 27-29
Visiting Work for Hospitals 29
V.D 29-31
Maternal Mortality 31-32
Maternity Hospital 32-35
„ ,, Out-Patients Department27, 32
District Midwifery Service 35-36
Dental Clinic 36-37
Infectious Diseases—(i.) Notifiable 38
Summary of Notifications 39, 109
Bacteriological Examinations 52,61
Contacts 38, 51
Small-pox 40
Scarlet Fever 40
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Prophylaxis 40-42
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 43
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 43
Encephalitis Lethargica 43-44
Polio-Myelitis and Polio-Encephalitis 42-43
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 44
Erysipelas 45
Measles and Whooping Cough 45
Tuberculosis 45 58,115-117
Cases Notified 45-47
Localisation of Disease 47
Non-notification 47
Deaths from Tuberculosis 47-49
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regs. 1924 (Requirement of
Notification) 47
„ „ „1925 56
Dispensary 49
„ (Report of) 50-54
Sputum Examination, X-Ray Examination 52
Institutional Treatment 51
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 52
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 53
Care Committee 53
Training and Employment 53
Non-Dispensary Patients 54-56
Summary Table of Notifications 57, 58
,, „ Tuberculosis Scheme (Dispensary) 115-117