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Stoke Newington 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page.
Statistics and Social Conditions 7
Summary of Vital Statistics ; Population ; Births ; Marriages ;
Deaths ; Infant Mortality ; Maternal Mortality.
General Provision of Health Services 19
Hospitals ; Clinics and Treatment Centres ; Public Health
Officers; Home Nursing; Midwives ; Maternal Mortality;
Legislation.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 32
Scavenging ; Sanitary Inspection ; Factories and Workshops
Smoke Abatement ; Houses-let-in-lodgings ; Underground
Sleeping Rooms ; Schools: Health Education; Storm
Flooding ; The Mortuary ; Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act,
1919 : Rag Flock Acts.
Housing 45
Housing Statistics 1931 ; The L.C.C. Housing Estates ;
Inspections and Action taken ; Rent Restriction Acts.
Inspection and Supervision of Food 50
Milk ; Meat and Other Foods ; Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
Prevalence of and Control Over Infectious and Other
Diseases 58
Infectious Diseases Generally ; Smallpox ; Scarlet Fever ;
Diphtheria and Immunisation ; Enteric Fever ; Puerperal Fever
and Pyrexia ; Ophthalmia Neonatorum ; Encephalitis
I ethargica ; Measles ; Whooping Cough ; Isolation ; Disinfection
and Cleansing ; Tuberculosis.
Maternity and Child Welfare 77
Visits ; Attendances at Centres ; Pre-natal and Post-natal
Clinic ; Dental Clinic.
I.ist of Streets for Guidance of Medical Practitioners, etc. 85