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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 and General Conditions.
Population and General Statistics 10
Marriages 10
Births 10
Illegitimacy 11
Notification of Births 11
Deaths 11
Infantile Mortality 13
Economic Conditions 17
Poor Law Relief 17
Hospital Accommodation 17
Health Week 18
Section II —Maternity and Child
Welfare 19
Advice Cards 20
Home Visiting 20
Centres 22
Artificial Sunlight Treatment 24
Dental Clinic 25
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children 26
Supply of Food to Mothers and
Children 26
Home for Sick Poor Children 27
Day Nurseries 28
Home Helps 28
Home Nursing 29
Midwifery 29
Government Grants 31
Section III.—Prevalence of and control
Over Infectious Diseases.
Table of Notifiable Diseases 32
Do. Monthly Number of Notifications
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Table of Monthly Number of Deaths 34
Do. Notifications past 10 years. 35
Do. do. and Deaths in
Wards 36
Smallpox 37
Vaccination 37
Scarlet Fever 38
Diphtheria 39
Typhoid Fever 40
Tuberculosis 40
Home Visits and Inquires 46
Dispensaries 46
Reports by Tuberculosis Officers 48, 50
Sanatoria, etc. 51
Care Committee 52
Puerperal Fever 51
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 55
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 55
Acute Polioencephalitis and Poliomyelitis
55
Encephalitis Lethargica 56
Pneumonia 56
Measles and German Measles 56
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 58
Whooping Cough 58
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 58
Influenza 59
Syphilis 59
Cancer 60
Section IV.—Other Services.
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 61
Mortuary 62
Inquests 63
Section V.—Sanitary Circumstances
of the District.
Inspections 63
Notices served and result of service 64
Nuisances—Legal Proceedings 64
Premises and Occupations controlled
by by.laws and regulations 66
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