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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Dental Treatment 72
Supply of Milk and Food for Mothers and Infants 73
Home Help 73
Convalescent Home Treatment 73
Emergency Homes 73
Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre 74
Extension of Maternity and Child Welfare Service: 74
Care of Children during Emergency Periods in Home 74
Revision of Scales of Assessment 74
Zachary Merton Convalescent Home 74
Additional Health Visitor 74
Home Help Service 75
Maternity Services by Voluntary Hospitals 75
Appointment of Obstetrical Consultant 75
Provision of Meals for Necessitous Expectant and Nursing Mothers 75
Infantile Mortality 75
Deaths of Infants under One Year 76
Infectious Diseases among Mothers and Children 77
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 77
Maternal Mortality 78
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 78
Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918 79
Whooping Cough 79
Measles 79
Measles Control in Schools 80
German Measles 80
Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years 80
Nursing Arrangements 80
Minor Ailments Clinic 80
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children 81
Infant Life Protection 83
Birth Control 83
Health and Baby Week 83
Sanitary Administration
Mortuary 84
Inquests 84
Removal of Aged Persons 84
Kent u.nd Mortgage Interest, Restriction Acts, 1920-1933 84
The Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 85
Nuisance from Pigeons 85
Old BuildingsāDemolition of 85
Propaganda 85
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics, 1937, and ten previous years 86
Table II. Causes of and Ages at Death, 1937 87
Table III. Infectious Diseases Notified during 1937 88
Table IV. Information required by L.C.C. 89
Table V. Factories, Workshops, Ac.
(1) Inspections 91
(2) Defects found 91
(3) Home Work 92
(4) Registered Workshops 93
(5) Other Matters 93
Ambulance Service (see inside of back cover).
List of Notifiable Diseases (see back of cover).