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CONTENTS.
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Public Health Committee 4
Staff of Public Health Department 5
Introduction 7
Section I.—Yital Statistics.
Population 9
Marriages 9
Births 9
Notification of Births 10
Illegitimacy 10
Deaths 10
Infantile Mortality 12
Section II.—Maternity and Child
Welfare. 15
Advice Cards 15
Home Visiting 15
Centres 16
Dental Clinic 20
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children 20
Supply of Food to Mothers and
Children 21
Home for ailing Children 21
Day Nurseries 21
Home Helps 22
Home Nursing 22
Midwifery Work 22
Government Grants 24
Puerperal Fever 24
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 25
Measles and German Measles 26
Whooping Cough 27
Section III.—Prevalence of and control
over Infectious Diseases.
Table of Notifiable Diseases 28
Do. Weekly Number of Notifications
29
Do. Weekly Number of Deaths 29
Do. Notifications past 10 years 29
Do. do. and Deaths in
Wards 30
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Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 31
Tuberculosis 32
St. Pancras Scheme 37
Visiting 37
Dispensaries , 38
Sanatoria, etc 39
Smallpox 39
Scarlet Fever 39
Diphtheria 40
Typhoid Fever 42
Acute Anterior Polioencephalitis and
Poliomyelitis 43
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 43
Encephalitis Lethargica 44
Malaria 45
Dysentery 45
Pneumonia 45
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 46
Anthrax in shaving brushes 47
Trachoma 47
Influenza 47
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 47
Syphilis 49
Cancer 49
Section IY.—Sanitary circumstances
of the District.
Inspections 50
Notices served and result of service 50
Nuisances—Legal Proceedings 51
Premises and Occupations which can
be controlled by by-laws and regulations
52
Offensive Trades 52
Registered Tenement Houses 52
Smoke Prevention 52
Constructional Drain Work 52
Drain Tests 52
Drainage Register 53
Water Service 53