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Battersea 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]

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Vital Statistics—Summary 8
Births, Marriages and Deaths—
Vital Statistics 9
Births 10-16
Marriages 10
Deaths 12
,, (Age Periods) 14
,, (In Public Institutions) 14
,, (Senile) 14
,, (Comparative Table) 16
Infant Mortality 17
otification of Births Act 20
Maternity and Child Welfare—
Centres 20
Maternity Home 21
Dental Clinic 21
Hospital Accommodation 22
Nursing 22
Health Visitors 23
Milk—Supply to Mothers and Children 23
Ante-Natal Work 24
Infectious Diseases 25
Infectious Diseases—
Summary 28
Contacts 31
Drainage Defects 31
Puerperal Fever 25
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 25
Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis 26
Diarrhoea 26
Measles and German Measles 26
Whooping Cough 27
Small Pox 32
Scarlet Fever 32
Diphtheria 32
Enteric Fever 32
Erysipelas 33
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 33
Encephalitis Lethargica 33
T uberculosis—
Summary 33
Battersea Dispensary 36
Contacts 37
Home and Institutional Treatment 37
Open-air School 37
Incidence 37
Localisation 39
Chicken-pox 41
Influenza 4l
Rabies 43
Anthrax 43
Bacteriological Examinations 43
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 44