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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Maternal and Infant Consultations 78
Breast Massage 70
Pre-School Children 79
Foundling Site Day Nursery 80
School Entrants 80
Stillbirths 80
Illegitimate Births 81
Dental Treatment 81
Supply of Milk and Food for Mothers and Infants 81
Home Help 82
Convalescent Home Treatment 83
Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre 83
Deaths of Children, One to Five Tears 83
Deaths of Infants under One Year 84
Enteritis, Deaths from 85
Infectious Diseases among Mothers and Children 86
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 86
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 87
Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918 88
Whooping Cough 88
Measles 88
Measles Control in Schools 88
German Measles 89
Epidemic Diarrhœa 89
Nursing Arrangements 89
Health and Baby Week 89
Minor Ailments Clinic 90
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children 90
Deaths of Children, 5-15 Years 93
Sanitary Administration
Mortuary 93
Inquests 93
Removal of Aged Persons 93
Rent and Mortgage Interest' (Restriction) Acts 93
Dogs—Nuisance from—By-laws 94
Nuisance from Pigeons 94
Old Buildings—Demolition of 94
Children's Country Holiday Fund 94
Propaganda 94
Scliick Film 95
"Better Health" 95
Other Propaganda 95
Noise from Loud Speakers, etc., By-law 95
Acid Effluent in Sewers 95
Silver, Recovery of—Nuisance from 96
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics, 1932, and ten previous years 97
Table II. Causes of and Ages at Death, 1932 98
Table III. Infectious Diseases Notified during 1932 99
Table IV. Information required by L.C.C. 100
Table V. Factories, Workshops, &c.
(1) Inspections 101
(2) Defects found 101
(3) Home Work 102
(4) Registered Workshops 103
(5) Other Matters 103
Table VI. Meteorology of London, 1932 104
Legal Proceedings 105
List of Notifiable Diseases (see back of cover).