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Map of Borough, showing statistics by
Wards 2
Public Health Committee 5
Staff of Public Health Department . 6
Introduction 8
Summary of Report 9
Section I.—Vital Statistics and
Economic Conditions.
Population and General Statistics 10
Marriages 10
Births 10
Illegitimacy 11
Notification of Births 11
Deaths11
Infantile Mortality 13
Deaths—Illegitimate Infants 17
Economic Conditions 17
Poor Law Relief. 17
Hospital Accommodation 18
Section II. —Maternity and Child
Welfare. 19
Advice Cards 19
Home Visiting 19
Centres 20
Dental Clinic 24
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children 24
Supply of Food to Mothers and
Children 25
Home for Sick Poor Children 26
Day Nurseries 26
Home Helps 27
Home Nursing 27
Midwifery 28
Government Grants 30
Section III.—Prevalence of and control
oyer Infectious Diseases.
Table of Notifiable Diseases 31
Do. Monthly Number of Notifications
32
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Table of Monthly Number of Deaths 33
Do. Notifications past 10 years 34
Do. do. and Deaths in
Wards 35
Smallpox 36
Vaccination 36
Scarlet Fever 37
Diphtheria 38
Typhoid Fever 39
Tuberculosis 39
Home Visits and Investigations 45
Dispensaries 45
Sanatoria, etc 47
Special Methods of Diagnosis and
Treatment 47
Care Committee 47
Puerperal Fever 49
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 49
Acute Polioencephalitis and Poliomyelitis
50
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 51
Encephalitis Lethargica 51
Pneumouia 52
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseises 52
Measles and German Measles 53
Whooping Cough 63
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 54
Influenza 55
Syphilis 55
Cancer 55
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 56
Disinfection of Verminous Articles 58
Section IV.—Sanitary circumstances
of the District.
Inspections 58
Notices served and result of service 59
Nuisances—Legal Proceedings 60
Premises and Occupations controlled
by by-laws and regulations 61