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Stoke Newington 1932

[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 16
Hospitals; Clinics and Treatment Centres; Public Health
Officers; Home Nursing; Midwives.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 27
Scavenging; Sanitary Inspection; Factories and Workshops;
Smoke Abatement ; Underground Sleeping Roms; Schools;
Health Education; Storm Flooding; The Mortuary; Rats
and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919; Rag Flock Acts.
Housing 38
Housing Statistics, 1931; The L.C.C. Housing Estates;
Inspection and Action taken; Rent Restriction Acts.
Inspection and Supervision of Food 48
Milk; Meat and Other Goods; Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
Prevalence of and Control Over Infectious and Other
Diseases 56
Infectious Diseases Generally; Smallpox; Scarlet Fever;
Diphtheria and Immunisation; Enteric Fever; Puerperal Fever
and Pyrexia; Ophthalmia Neonatorum; Encephalitis Lethargica;
Measles; Whooping Cough; Isolation; Disinfecting and
Cleansing; Tuberculosis.
Maternity and Child Welfare 76
Visits; Attendances at Centres; Pre-natal and Post-natal Clinic
Dental Clinic : Birth Control.
List of Streets for Guidance of Medical Practitioners, etc 84