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CONTENTS.
Chapter XXIII.
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Public Health Reports.—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and School Medical
Officer for the year 1920—Part I. (Vital Statistics and Administration).
Introductory Note 1
A—Vital Statistics.—Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infectious diseases—Smallpox—
Measles—Scarlet fever—Diphtheria—Typhus fever—Plague and cholera—Anthiax—Tuberculosis—Cerebro-spinal
fever—Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis—Encephalitis lethargica—
Laboratory work—-Ultra-visible viruses—Typhoid—Dysentery—Venereal disease 3
B—Administration.—Tuberculous milk—Offensive trades—Common and seamen's lodging houses—
Housing of transmigrants—Sanitary staffs—Housing—Building control-—National Health
Insurance Acts (Treatment of tuberculosis)—Tuberculosis-—Mental Deficiency Act, 1913—
Midwives Acts—Children Act, 1908—Work of the chemical branch of the Public Health
Department 31
Statistical Tables.—I. Vital statistics—II. Administrative work—III. Tuberculosis dispensaries 48
Chapter XXIV.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and
School Medical Officer for the year 1920—Part II. (Education).
Introductory Note.—Medical inspection and treatment—Personal hygiene—Epidemic diseases—
Results of medical inspection—-Stammering children—Special investigations 52
Following-up 61
Co-operation with School Attendance Branch 63
Juvenile Employment 65
Medical Treatment 66
Nursery Schools 72
Open-Air Education 72
Physical Education 75
Personal Hygiene 77
Education (Provision of Meals) Act 79
Infectious Diseases 80
Residential, Special and Industrial Schools 93
Examination of Candidates 93
Defective Children 94
Statistical Tables.—I. Inspections—II. Defects—III. Exceptional children—IV. Treatment of
minor ailments, visual defects, defects of nose and throat, dental defects:—V. Svmmary of
treatment—VI. Summary—VII. Routine inspections—VIII. Summary, elementary schools
—IX. Summary, secondary, etc., schools 100
Chapter XXV.
Public Health—Infectious, etc., diseases—Tuberculosis—Venereal disease—Infant life protection—Lying-in
homes—Midwives—Houses let in lodgings—Housing of transmigrants
—Homeless persons—Soldiers' rest houses—Lodging houses—Offensive businesses—Milk—Appeal
Committee—Health administration in London—Diseases of animals .. 108
Chapter XXVI.
Main Drainage 120
Chapter XXVII.
Housing 124