London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Holborn 1938

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

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Dental Treatment 68
Supply of Milk and Food for Mothers and Infants 69
Home Help 69
Convalescent Home Treatment 70
Emergency Homes 70
Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre 70
Infantile Mortality 70
Deaths of Infants under One Year 71
Infectious Diseases among Mothers and Children 72
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 72
Maternal Mortality 73
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 73
Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918 73
Whooping Cough 74
Measles 74
Measles Control in Schools 75
German Measles 75
Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years 75
Nursing Arrangements 75
Minor Ailments Clinic 75
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children 76
Infant Life Protection 78
Birth Control 78
Health and Baby Week 78
Sanitary Administration
Mortuary 79
Inquests 79
Removal of Aged Persons 79
Rent and Mortgage Interest, Restriction Acts, 1920 1933 79
The Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 80
Nuisance from Pigeons 80
Old Buildings—Demolition of 80
Propaganda 80
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics, 1938, and ten previous years 81
Table II. Causes of and Ages at Death, 1938 82
Table III. Infectious Diseases Notified during 1938 83
Table IV. Information required by L.C.C 84
Table V. Factories, Workshops, &c.
(1) Inspections 86
(2) Defects found 86
(3) Home Work 87
Ambulance Service (see inside of back cover).
List of Notifiable Diseases (see back of cover).