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Lambeth 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Official Staff (Public Health Department)... ... ... 2
Introductory Letter .. 3-4
Vital Statistics 6-69
Estimated Populations, 1924 .67
Births and Birth-rates . 8-11
Notification of Births Act
. 11-12
Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 12.18
Municipal Milk Depot and Infants Consultations Centre 18.20
Lambeth Milk Assistance Scheme (Free or Aided Supplies). 20
Deaths and Death-rates (General, Infantile and Zymotic) 21 31
Lambeth Nursing (Infectious Diseases) Scheme 33
Infectious Diseases .
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(c) Tuberculosis Regulations ... ... 38-41
Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme .. 42-47
(d) Dental Treatment of Tuberculosis Dispensary Patients... 43
(e) Polio-Myelitis (polio-encephalitis), Cerebro-spinal Fever,
Encephalitis Lethargica 48-49
(/) "Contacts" or "Suspects," "Carriers," &.c. 52
Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory 53
l>ocal Government Board, Old Tables A and B. . 54.59
Local Government Board, New Tables I., II., III., and IV. 60-65
Mortality Tables (Corrected deaths)—
(a) Registration Sub-Districts (b) Age-Periods (r) Summary ... 66-68
Summary of Vital and Mortal Statistics, 1924 ... ... ... 69
Sanitary Work ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 7°
Notices served... ... ... ... ... ... . 7°"7I
(a) Infectious Diseases ... ... ... ... ... .
(b) General Nuisances and Drainage Defects ... ... 77
Male Sanitary Inspectors ... ... ... ... ... ... 724
Registration of Cowhouses, Slaughterhouses, Common Lodging Houses
and Milk Shops ... 74-75
Offensive Trades .. . . 76
Female Sanitary Inspectors and Health Vistors .. ... 76-78
Factories and Workshops and Out-Workers . 78-79
Housing Department 80-87
Disinfecting Department 88
Analysis of Food and Drugs and Water 89- 90
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations 90-91
Milk (Special Designations) Orders, 1922-23 91_93
Ice Cream Vendors Mortuaries and Coroners'Courts ... 93
Appendices—
I. Housing Conditions, 1924 (Ministry of Healih Table) 94-96
II. History of the Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme... q7-107
III. Special Report on the Maternity Needs of the Borough of
Lambeth ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 108-110
IV. Area Representations for Improvement Schemes. 111-123
V. Cancer Campaign ... .. ... ... ... ... 124