London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 10 | Institutional Treatment (Tuberculosis) | 16 |
| Administrative Work | 31 | Institutions, Deaths in | 23 |
| Alcoholism | 21 | Legal Proceedings | 41 |
| Annual Cleansing | 36 | L.C.C. Houses | 36 |
| Ante-natal Clinics | 34 | Malaria | 21 |
| Arsenic in Borax | 40 | Measles | 27 |
| Bacteriological Examinations | 31 | "Meningitis" | 10 |
| Bakehouses | 37 | Meteorology | 1 |
| Births | 3 | Milk, Condensed | 38 |
| ,, Notification | 3 | ,, Dried | 38 |
| „ Illegitimate | 3 | „ Grants | 34 |
| „ in Institutions | 3 | ,, (Special Designations) | 39 |
| „ Still- | 4 | ,, Trade | 38 |
| Canals, Canal Boats | 33 | Mortality, Infantile | 23 |
| Cancer, Mortality from | 20 | „ at ages 1-5 years | 24 |
| Care Committee (Tuberculosis) | 17 | „ in Childbed | 9 |
| Carrier Clinic | 7 | ,, of Infants in Special Areas | 26 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 10 | Mortuary | 33 |
| Chicken-pox | 30 | Multiple Pregnancies | 3 |
| Child-bearing, Fatality of | 9 | Mumps | 30 |
| Childhood, Statistics of | 23 | Notification of Births | 3 |
| Clerical Work | 42 | „ Tuberculosis | 15 |
| Combined Drainage | 32 | Nursing | 31 |
| Common Lodging Houses | 36 | Offensive Trades | 33 |
| Compulsory Repairs | 35 | Office Work | 42 |
| "Conversions" | 35 | Old Age, Deaths from | 22 |
| Cream Regulations | 40 | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 |
| Day Nurseries | 5, 62 | Outworkers (Homework) | 37 |
| 4 | Overcrowding | 36 | |
| „ in Institutions | 23 | Population | 1 |
| Dental Clinic (Tuberculosis) | 17 | Pneumonia | 10 |
| Diarrhœa, Mortality from | 29 | Preservatives in Food | 40 |
| Dinners for Mothers | 34 | Prevention of Infectious Disease | 31 |
| Diphtheria | 5 | Puerperal Fever | 8 |
| „ Carrier Clinic | 7 | Rag and Bone Dealers, Bye-laws | 33 |
| Disinfection | 31 | Rats and Mice Destruction | 40 |
| Dispensary Work (Tuberculosis) | 16 | Residential Treatment (Tuberculosis) | 17 |
| Drainage Plans | 32 | Ringworm | 30 |
| Drains, Private, Re-laid | 32 | Scarlet Fever | 7 |
| „ Dead | 32 | Schools and Infectious Diseases | 31 |
| Dysentery | 21 | Septic Diseases | 9 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 10 | Sewer Connections | 32 |
| Enteric Fever | 8 | Slaughterhouses | 38 |
| Erysipelas | 9 | Smallpox | 5 |
| Estimated Population | 2 | Smoke Nuisance | 33 |
| Food Adulteration | 39 | Staff | 31,62 |
| ,, Supervision | 38 | Tenement Houses | 36 |
| Health Visiting | 34 | Trade Nuisances | 33 |
| Homeless Persons | 37 | Tuberculosis, Care Committee | 17 |
| Home Workers (Outworkers) | 37 | „ Dispensaries | 16, 62 |
| House Sanitation | 31 | „ Institutional Treatment | 16 |
| Houses Unfit for Habitation | 36 | „ Mortality from | 18 |
| Housing | 35 | „ Notification | 15 |
| Ice Creams | 39 | „ Scheme | 16 |
| Illegitimates, Births of | 3 | Underground Rooms | 36 |
| „ Deaths of | 26 | Unsound Food | 39 |
| Increase of Rent, &c., Acts | 36 | Vaccination | 5 |
| Infant Consultation Centres | 34, 62 | Venereal Diseases | 22, 62 |
| Infants, Mortality of | 23 | Verminous Conditions | 41 |
| Infants, Mortality in Special Areas | 26 | Water Supply | 33 |
| Influenza | 10 | Welfare Work | 34 |
| Inland Revenue Acts | 36 | Whooping Cough | 28 |
| Inquests | 22 | Workshop Supervision | 37 |
APPENDIX.
Tables 1—22: Housing: Clinics and Treatment Centres: Public Health Staff.