Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Statistics and Social Conditions 686
Summary of Vital Statistics; Population; Births; Deaths;
Infant Mortality.
General Provisions of Health Services 693
Hospitals; Clinics and Treatment Centres; Public Health
Officers; Home Nursing; Midwives; Chemical work;
Legislation; Diffusion of Information on Health Matters.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 702
Scavenging; Sanitary Inspection; Factories & Workshops;
Smoke Abatement; Houses-let-in-lodgings; Underground
Sleeping Rooms; Drainage; Rats; Floodings; The Mortuary;
Schools.
Housing. 714
Results of Tenementation; the L.C.C. Housing Estates;
Inspections and Action taken; Rent Restriction Acts.
Inspection & Supervision of Food 718
Milk; Meat and Other Foods; Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
Prevalence of and Control Over Infectious and Other Diseases 724
Infectious Diseases Generally; Scarlet Fever; Diphtheria and
Immunisation; Enteric Fever; Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia;
Ophthalmia Neonatorum; Encephalitis Lethargica; Measles;
Whooping Cough; Isolation, Disinfection and Cleansing;
Tuberculosis. Non-Infectious Diseases; The Borough's
Dependence on the Metropolis; Cancer.
Maternity and Child Welfare 737
Visits; Attendances at Centres; Ante-natal and Post-natal
Clinic; Dental Clinic.
List of Streets for Guidance of Medical Practitioners, etc. 741