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CONTENTS.
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Public Health Committee 4
Staff of Public Health Department 5
Introduction 7
Section I.—Vital Statistics and
Economic Conditions.
Population and General Statistics 9
Census(1921) 9
Marriages 10
Births 10
Illegitimacy 11
Notification of Births 11
Deaths11
Infantile Mortality 13
Economic Conditions 16
Poor Law Relief 16
Hospital Accommodation 17
Section II.—Maternity and Child
Welfare.18
Advice Cards 18
Home Visiting 18
Centres 19
Massage Clinics 22
Dental Clinic 23
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children 23
Supply of Food to Mothers and
Children 24
Home for Ailing Children 25
Day Nurseries 26
Home Helps 26
Home Nursing 27
Midwifery 27
Government Grants 29
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 29
Puerperal Fever 30
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 31
Measles and German Measles 31
Whooping Cough 32
Section III.—Prevalence of and Control
over Infectious Diseases.
Table of Notifiable Diseases 33
Do. Notifications past 10 years 34
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Table of Notifications and Deaths in
Wards 35
Do. Weekly Number of Notifications
35
Do. Weekly Number of Deaths 35
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 36
Disinfection of Verminous Articles 37
Tuberculosis 38
Visiting 43
Dispensaries 43
Sanatoria, etc 46
Smallpox 46
Vaccination 46
Scarlet Fever 47
Outbreak at Foundling Hospital 49
Diphtheria 52
Typhoid Fever 54
Acute Anterior Polioencephalitis and
Poliomyelitis 55
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 55
Encephalitis Lethargica 56
Malaria 57
Dysentery 57
Pneumonia 57
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 58
Influenza 58
Syphilis 60
Cancer 60
Section IV.—Sanitary Circumstances
of the District.
Inspections 61
Notices Served and Result of Service 61
Nuisances—Legal Proceedings 62
Premises and Occupations Controlled
by By-laws and Regulations 63
Offensive Trades 63
Registered Tenement Houses 63
Underground Rooms 63
Smoke Prevention 64
Constructional Drain Work 64
Drain Tests 64
Drainage Register 64
Water Service 65
Canal Boats Acts 65
Inhabited House Duty 65