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Lambeth 1926

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

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Introductory Letter 4-6
Vital Statistics 8-87
Estimated Populations, 1926 8-9
Births and Birth-rates 10-13
Notification of Births Act I3-14
Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 14-16
Lambeth Milk Assistance Scheme (Free or Aided Supplies) 17-18
Municipal Milk Depot and Infants Consultations Centre 18-20
Proposed appointment of Assistant Medical Officer for Maternity and
Child Welfare 20-21
Deaths and Death-rates (General, Infantile and Zymotic) 21-34
Lambeth Nursing (Infectious Diseases) Scheme 45
Infectious Diseases 35-64
{a) Notifiable 35-6i
(b) Non-Notifiable 62-64
(c) Tuberculosis Regulations 50-54
Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme 54-59
(d) Polio-Myelitis (polio-encephalitis), Cerebrospinal Fever,
Encephalitis Lethargica 60-61
Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory 65-71
Local Government Board, Old Tables A and B. 72—77
Local Government Board, New Tables I., II,, III., and IV 78-83
Mortality Tables (Corrected deaths—
(a) Registration Sub-Districts (b) Age-Periods (c) Summary 84-86
Summary of Vital and Mortal Statistics, 1926 87
Sanitary Work 88-112
Notices served 88-90
(a) Infectious Diseases 88
(b) General Nuisances and Drainage Defects 88-90
Male Sanitary Inspectors (District Inspectors) 90-92
Registration of Cowhouses, Slaughterhouses, Common Lodging Houses
and Milk Shops 92-93
Offensive Trades 94
Male Sanitary Inspectors (Food Inspectors) 90
Male Sanitary Inspectors (Housing Inspectors) 90
Female Sanitary Inspectors 94-95
Female Health Visitors 96
Factories and Workshops and Out-Workers 96-97
Housing Department 97-3
Disinfecting Department 104-106
Analysis of Food and Drugs and Water 107-108
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations 108-109
Milk (Special Designations) Orders. 1922-23 109-111
Ice Cream Vendors 112
Mortuaries and Coroners' Courts 112
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 112
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 112
Appendices—
I. Housing Conditions, 1926 (Ministry of Health Table) 113-115
II. Tuberculosis Statistics Addendum (1925) 115-123
III. An unusual case of insect infestation 123-124