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Battersea 1929

[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, 74, 105
Staff of Tuberculosis Department 3,53
Introduction 4-5
Summary of Statistics 8
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Vital Statistics 8,9, 106
Population 9
Marriages 10
Births and Birth-rates 10-11, 17-19,106
Illegitimate Births 11
Deaths in Borough 11-14,17,106,108
Deaths in Public Insitutions and Senile Mortality 14
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1929) 18
Infant Mortality 14-17, 19, 109-112
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 and work done thereat 21-23
Hospital Provision 24
Southwark Diocesan Homes 24
Home Helps 25
Milk and Dinners for necessitous persons 25
Convalescent Homes 26
Nursing Facilities 26
Health Visiting Staff and Statistics of Visits 26-27
Test-feeding (St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel) 27—28
Ante-Natal Work, Municipal and Voluntary 28-31
Visiting Work for Hospitals 30-31
V.D 31-32
Maternal Mortality 33
Maternity Hospital 34-37
District Midwifery Service 37-38
Dental Clinic 38-39
Solarium 39
Infectious Diseases—(i.) Notifiable 40
Summary of Notifications 41,107
Bacteriological Examinations 55,61-62
Contacts 40, 42
Small-pox 42
Scarlet Fever 42
Diphtheria and Diptheria Prophylaxis 43-45
Polio-Myelitis and Polio-Encephalitis 45
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 45, 46
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 45
Encephalitis Lethargica 46
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 46-47
Erysipelas 47
Measles and Whooping Cough 47, 48
Tuberculosis 48—59, 113—124
Cases Notified 48-49
Localisation of Disease 50
Non-notification and notification after death 50,52
Deaths from Tuberculosis 50-52
Shelters 52
Dispensary 53-55
„ (Report of) 113—124
Sputum Examination, X-ray Examination 55
Institutional Treatment 55,117
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 53,121
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 53,121
Care Committee 2, 121
Training and Employment 123, 126-127
Non-Dispensary Patients 55-57
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regs. 1925 57
Revision of Register 57
Summary Tables 58-59, 113-115
Zymotic Deaths 60