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REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
FOR THE YEAR 1928.
SPECIAL REPORTS (OTHER THAN THE HEALTH OF THE BOROUGH)
AND OUTSTANDING MATTERS BROUGHT BEFORE THE
PUBLIC HEALTH OR MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
COMMITTEES DURING THE YEAR.
SUMMARY.
1. Health and Baby Week.—Opportunity was taken of this special
educational propaganda to distribute a leaflet setting forth the various activities ofthe
Public Health Department and the Welfare Centres. Cinema Display. See
pages 9, 10, 18—21.
2. Infectious Diseases. Pages 80—39. — Occurrence of Smallpox,
pages 31—34.
3. Meat, Food and Drugs.—(a) Food poisoning, page 67. (b) Sophistication
of Milk, Dairy Show, page 73. (c) Liniment of Turpentine, page 72. (d)
Restaurant Kitchens, page 69. (e) Broken Milk Bottles, page 54.
4. Workshops, etc., page 49. Fried Fish Vendors, page 58. Scavenging,
page 52.
5. Tenement Dwellings, lighting and ventilation of staircases, page 58.
6. Health Visitation and work of Voluntary Centres, Artificial Sunlight,
etc., pages 18—22. Maternal Mortality, pages 11—11.
7. Legal Proceedings, pages 85—89. Recent Legislation, page 55.
8. Index to Report, page 93.