Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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CONTENTS.
General. Page
Constitution of Committees 1-2
Staff of Public Health Department 3, 79
Introduction 4-5
Summary of Statistics 8
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Vital Statistics 9, 112
Population 9
Marriages 10
Births and Birth-rates 10 11, 17-18, 112
Illegitimate Births 11
Deaths in Borough 11-12, 17, 112, 114
Deaths in Public Institutions and Senile Mortality 13-14
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1858-1928) 18
Infant Mortality 14-17, 19, 115-118
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 20
Centres 21-22
Hospital Provision 23
Southwark Diocesan Homes 23
Milk and Dinners for necessitous persons 23
Convalescent Homes 24-25
Nursing Facilities 25
Health Visitors 25-26
Test-feeding (St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel) 26
Ante-Natal Work 27-31
Visiting Work for Hospitals 31
V.D 31-33
Maternal Mortality 33
Maternity Hospital 34-37
District Midwifery Service 37-38
Dental Clinic 38-39
Nursing Homes—Solarium 39
Infectious Diseases—(i.) Notifiable 40
Summary of Notifications 41,113
Bacteriological Examinations 54,62
Contacts 40
Small-pox 42
Scarlet Fever 42
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Prophylaxis 43-45
Enteric Fever. Cerebro-Spinal Fever 46
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 45
Encephalitis Lethargica 46
Polio-Myelitis and Polio-Encephalitis 45
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 46-47
Erysipelas 47
Measles and Whooping Cough 48
Tuberculosis 48—59, 119—127
Cases Notified 49
Localisation of Disease 50
Non-notification and notification after death 50, 52
Deaths from Tuberculosis 50-52
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regs. 1925 57
Dispensary 52-55
(Report of) 122-127
Sputum Examination, X-Ray Examination 54-55
Institutional Treatment 54, 123
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 53, 125
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 55, 126
Care Committee 126
Training and Employment 123, 126-127
Non-Dispensary Patients 55-57
Summary Tables 58-59, 119 121
Zymotic Deaths 60