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 Holborn Borough]
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Pre-Sohool Children 83
School Entrants 84
Stillbirths 84
Illegitimate Births 85
Dental Treatment 85
Supply of Milk and Food for Mothers and Infants 85
Home Help 86
Convalescent Home Treatment 86
Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre 87
Deaths of Children, One to Five Years 87
Deaths of Infants under One Year 88
Infectious Diseases among Mothers and Children 89
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 89
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 90
Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918 91
Whooping Cough 91
Measles 92
Measles, Control in Schools 93
German Measles 93
Epidemic Diarrhoea 93
Nursing Arrangements 93
Health and Baby Week 93
Minor Ailments Clinic 95
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children 95
Deaths of Children, 5-15 Years 98
Sanitary Administration
Mortuary 88
Inquests 98
Removal of Aged Persons 99
Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction) Acts 99
Nuisances—Notified by Relieving Officers 99
Dogs—Nuisance from—By-laws 99
Nuisance from Pigeons 100
Old Buildings—Demolition of 100
Children's Country Holiday Fund 100
Propaganda 100
Schick Film 100
Better Health 101
Other Propaganda 101
Noise from Loud Speakers, etc., By-law 101
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics, 1931, and ten previous years 102
Table II. Causes of and Ages at Death, 1931 103
Table III. Infectious Diseases Notified during 1931 104
Table IV. Infectious Diseases in Holborn during 1931 and ten previous years 105
Table V. Information required by L.C.C. 106
Table VI. Factories, Workshops, &c.
(1) Inspections 107
(2) Defects found 107
(3) Home Work 108
(4) Registered Workshops 109
(5) Other Matters 109
Table VII. Meteorology of London, 1931 110
Legal Proceedings l1l
List of Notifiable Diseases (see back of cover).