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 Hammersmith Borough]
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INDEX
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Introduction2
Staff of the Public Health Department 5
Statistics fob the Year, 1937 8
Natural and Social Conditions of the District.
Births 9
Cancer 11
Deaths 10
Deaths of Aged Persons 11
Deaths of Residents (Outlying) 12
Deaths (Various Causes) 15
Marriages 9
Population 9
Statistics 12
Table—Whole of London—Comparison 16
General Provision of Health Services in the Borough.
Ambulance Facilities 17
Hospitals (Public) 20
Hospitals (Voluntary) 21
Laboratory Facilities 17
Professional Nursing in the Home—
General 18
Nursing 18
Rheumatism Advisory Clinic 19
School Clinics 18
Treatment Centre for Venereal Diseases 20
Tuberculosis Dispensary 19
Treatment and Nursing—Children under School Age 20
Minor Ailments.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Accouchement Outfits and Maternity Bags 43
Ante-natal Clinics 40
Births—Notification 30
Centres—Infant Welfare 36
Chart—Infantile Mortality Rate 31
Circumcisions 35
Cod Liver Oil 40
Consultants 44
Convalescent Treatment (Invalid Children) 49
Convalescent Treatment (Nursing Mothers and Young Children) 50
Day Nurseries 49
Deaths of Infants 30
Deaths—Premature 33
Deaths in Institutions 34
Deaths—Illegitimate 34