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.
Introduction 5-6
Constitution of Committees 1-2
Staff 3,14,68
Summary of Statistics 9,24,129
Natural and Social Conditions 10
Hospitals in Borough 10
Clinics and Treatment Centres 12
Acts and By-laws, Local 12
Health Propaganda 12
Registration of Births and Deaths 13
Vaccination 13
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Vital Statistics 15,129
Population 15,129
Marriages 17
Births and Birth-rates 15,22,129
Illegitimate Infants—Number of Births 17
,, „ Deaths 22
Deaths in Borough 17,129
Deaths in Public Insitutions and Senile Mortality 19,20
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1930) 24
Infant Mortality 20,25,132-135
Comparative Statistics, Metropolitan Boroughs 23
Notification of Births Act and Still-Births Registration 22
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 26-53
Centres and Work done thereat 26-29
Hospital Provision and Ambulance Service 30,55
Southwark Diocesan and Convalescent Homes 31,34
Home Helps 32
Milk and Dinners for necessitous persons 32
Day Nurseries 30
Midwives 34
Nursing Facilities and Service 34,35
Nursing Homes in Borough 34
Health Visiting Staff and Statistics of Visits 3,28
Test-feeding (St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel) 35
Ante-Natal Work, Municipal and Voluntary 27,36-42
Visiting Work for Hospitals 40
V.D.—Report of Consultant 40
Maternal Mortality 43
Maternity Hospital 44-51
District Midwifery Service 51
Dental Clinic 52
Solarium 53,70
Infectious Diseases—(i.) Notifiable 54-75
List of Diseases Notifiable 54
Summary of Notifications 56, 130
Bacteriological Examinations 70,78
Contacts 54,57,69
Incidence of the Several Notifiable Diseases 57-64
Diphtheria Prophylaxis (Schick Clinic) 60
Tuberculosis 64-75, 120, 136-140
Cases Notified 64,74-75
Localisation of Disease 66
Non-notification and notification after death 66
Deaths from Tuberculosis 64-66
Shelters 68
Dispensary Staff 68
Sputum Examination, X-ray Examination 70, 124
Institutional and Artificial Sunlight Treatment 70,125
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 125
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 69,126
Care Committee 2,126
Non-Dispensary Patients 71-72