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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Public Cleansing 30
Rodent Control 30
Sanitary Inspection 30
Sewerage 31
Water Supply 29
SECTION G—General Provision of Health Services :—
Ambulance Facilities 38
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 42
Conferences 44
Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations 44
Hammersmith Chest Clinic 38
Health Information Bureau 44
Hospitals 38
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation 41
Laboratory Facilities 38
National Assistance Acts 1948/51—Removal of Aged Persons 42
Old People's Welfare 42
Personal Health Services 39
Ante-natal Clinics 40
Chiropody 40
Creche 41
Day Nurseries 41
Domestic Help Service 41
Immunisation 40
Speech Therapy 40
Welfare Centres 40
Staff Medical Examinations 43
STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT—TABLES
Causes of Death in Age Groups 53
Deaths from Carcinoma of Lungs in Age Groups 49
Disinfection 67
Extracts from Vital Statistics 47
Factory Defects 60
Factory Inspections 60
General Statistics 47
Incidence of Cancer during the past 10 years 48
Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Neoplasms of the Lungs 50
Infant Deaths under 1 year in age groups 56
Infant Mortality 55
Infant Mortality Rates—England and Wales and various other
Countries 58
Infectious Diseases—Notifications in Age Groups 64
Maternal Mortality 58
Medicinal Baths—Cleansing of Verminous Persons 67
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 63
Natural Increase or Decrease of the Population during the past 20
years 48
Outworkers 61
Sanitary Inspection—Notices served and complied with 59
Summonses—Proceedings instituted 59
Tuberculosis—Notifications and deaths for the past 20 years 65
Tuberculosis—Notifications in sex and age groups 65
Unsound Food condemned 62
Vital Statistics of Whole District 51
CHARTS
Birth and Death Rates for the past 20 years 52
Number of Infant Deaths under 1 year of age during the past 20
years 57
Number of new cases of Tuberculosis notified during the past 20
years 66
Proportion of Deaths from Principal Causes 54