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Holborn 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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Foundling Hospital Day Nursery 74
School Entrants 74
Stillbirths 75
Illegitimate Births 75
Dental Treatment 75
Supply of Milk and Food for Mothers and Infants 76
Home Help 76
Convalescent Home Treatment 76
Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre 76
Deaths of Infants under One Year 77
Infectious Diseases among Mothers and Children 78
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 78
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 79
Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918 80
Whooping Cough 80
Measles 80
Measles Control in Schools 80
German Measles 81
Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years 81
Nursing Arrangements 81
Minor Ailments Clinic 81
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children 82
Infant Life Protection 84
Birth Control 84
Health and Baby Week 84
Sanitary Administration
Mortuary 85
Inquests 85
Removal of Aged Persons 85
Rent and Mortgage Interest, Restriction Acts, 1920-1933 86
New Legislation 86
Nuisance from Pigeons 87
Old Buildings—Demolition of 87
Propaganda 87
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics, 1936, and ten previous years 88
Table II. Causes of and Ages at Death, 1936 80
Table III. Infectious Diseases Notified during 1936 90
Table IV. Information required by L.C.C. 91
Table V. Factories, Workshops, &c.
(1) Inspections 93
(2) Defects found 93
(3) Home Work 94
(4) Registered Workshops 95
(6) Other Matters 95
Ambulance Service (see inside of back cover).
List of Notifiable Diseases (see back of cover).