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Battersea 1932

[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, 82
Revision of Sub-Districts 10
Vital Statistics.
Summary 9, 18, 19, 20, 130
Census—Population 9-11
Births—General Tables 10-12, 18, 19, 20
„ Notification of Births Act 17-18
„ Still Births 12, 18
Marriages 13
Deaths—General Tables ; Public Institutions ; Senile Mortality 13-15
18, 19, 20, 132
„ Zymotic 19, 67
„ Infant Mortality 15-17, 18, 19, 20, 133-135
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 21-43
Centres, Municipal and Voluntary 21-24, 32-34
Health Visiting Staff and Work 3, 23, 24
Day Nursery 21, 25
Ambulances 25
Hospitals 21, 25, 26, 34
Unmarried Mothers (Southwark Diocesan Homes) 21, 26
Invalid Children's Aid Association 21, 28
Home Helps 26
Milk and Dinners for Necessitous Mothers and Children 27
Convalescent Treatment 28
Midwives 28, 40
Nursing 28-29
Test Feeding (St. Thomas's Babies Hostel) 21, 26, 29
Ante-natal Work 30-37
Reports of Work at Centres 30-33
V.D. Clinic 35-6
Maternal Mortality 35-8
Maternity Hospital 38-40, 41
District Midwifery Service 40
Dental Clinic 42
Solarium 43, 60, 121, 126
Infectious Diseases (Notifiable) 44-66, 131
List of Notifiable Diseases 44
Contacts 44, 46
Summary Tables 45, 131
Incidence of the several Notifiable Diseases 45-66
Diphtheria Prophylaxis (Schick Clinic) 48
Vaccinators 53
Tuberculosis 54-66, 120-129, 136-140
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 26, 58-60, 120-129
Bacteriological and X-Ray Examinations 58, 60, 125
Open-air School (Springwell House) 59, 126
Care Committee 2, 59, 122, 127-129
Dental Treatment 59, 126
Institutional and Artificial Sunlight Treatment 59, 60, 121, 126
Artificial pneumo-thorax treatment 60, 121
Non-Dispensary Patients 61
Contacts 59, 120, 140
Tuberculosis Regulations, 1925 and 1930 62-63
Revision of Register 63-66
Summary Tables 64-66, 136-140
Tuberculosis Officer's Report 120-129
Zymotic Diseases 67