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
Committees 1-2
Staff 3-4, 53, 58, 85
Vital Statistics.
Summary 9, 18, 19, 21
Census—Population 10
Births—General Tables 10-12, 18, 20
Notification of Births Act: Still Births 12, 16-17, 18
Marriages 12
Deaths—General Tables ; Public Institutions ; Senile Mortality 12-15
18, 20. 123
„ Infant Mortality 15-17, 18, 20, 124-127
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 21-45
Centres, Municipal and Voluntary 21-24, 32-34
Health Visiting Staff and Work 3, 23, 24
Day Nursery 25
Ambulances 25
Hospitals 25, 35
Unmarried Mothers 26
Home Helps 26
Milk and Dinners for Necessitous Mothers and Children 27
Convalescent Treatment 28
Midwives 28, 42
Nursing 28-29
Test Feeding (St. Thomas's Babies Hostel) 29
Ante-natal Work 30—37
Reports of Work at Centres 30-33
V.D. Clinic 35-7
Maternal Mortality 38-9
Maternity Hospital 39-42
District Midwifery Service 42-43
Dental Clinic 43-44
Solarium 44-45, 60, 117
Infectious Diseases (Notifiable) 46-66, 122
List of Notifiable Diseases 46
Contacts 46, 48
Summary Tables 47, 122
Incidence of the several Notifiable Diseases 48-66
Diphtheria Prophylaxis (Schick Clinic) 49
Vaccinators 53
Tuberculosis 54-66, 112-120, 128-132
Notifications 54-55
Deaths and Death-rates 54-55, 57
Localisation in Notified Cases 56
Non-notification and Delayed Notification 56-57
Shelters 58
Dispensary—Staff and Work carried out 58-60
Bacteriological and X-Ray Examinations 58, 60, 112, 116
Open-air School (Springwell House) 59,117
Care Committee 2, 59, 113, 118
Dental Treatment 59, 117
Institutional and Artificial Sunlight Treatment 59, 60, 116, 117
Non-Dispensary Patients 61
Contacts 59, 112, 116
Tuberculosis Regulations, 1925 and 1930 62-63
Revision of Register 63-66
Summary Tables 64-66
Tuberculosis Officer's Report 112
Zymotic Diseases 67