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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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CONTENTS.
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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 11
Section I.—Vital Statistics, and
Economic and General Conditions.
Population and General Statistics 12
Marriages 12
Births 12
Illegitimacy 13
Notification of Births 13
Deaths. 14
Infantile Mortality 16
Economic Conditions 22
Poor Law Relief 22
Hospital Accommodation 23
Health Week 23
National Rat Week 24
Section II —Maternity and Child
Welfare 25
Advice Cards 25
Home Visiting 20
Centres 28
Proposed re-organization of Maternity
and Child Welfare Work 31
Artificial Sunlight Treatment 34
Dental Clinic 37
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children 38
Supply of Food to Mothers and
Children 38
Home for Sick Poor Children 40
Day Nurseries 40
Home Helps 41
Widows', Orphans' and Old Age
Contributory Pensions Act, 1925 41
Home Nursing 41
Midwifery 42
Government Grants 44
Section III.—Prevalence of and control
over Infectious Diseaaes.
Table of Notifiable Diseases 45
Do. Monthly Number of Notifications
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Table of Monthly Number of Deaths 47
Do. Notifications past 10 years 48
Do. do. and Deaths in
Wards 49
SmallpoxZ 50
Vaccination 50
Scarlet Fever 51
Diphtheria 51
Typhoid or Enteric Fever 52
Tuberculosis 53
Dental Treatment 58
X-ray Examinations and Reports 58
Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925 58
Boarding-out of Children from
Tuberculous Homes 58
Cessation of Supervision 59
Home Visits and Inquiries 60
Dispensaries 61
Report by Tuberculosis Officer 62
Sanatoria, etc 63
Care Committee 64
Puerperal Fever. 66
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 67
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 67
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
68
Encephalitis Lethargica 68
Pneumonia 69
Measles and German Measles 70
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 71
Whooping Cough 71
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 71
Influenza 2
Syphilis 72
Cancer 73
Section IY.—Other Services.
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 74
Mortuary 75
Inquests and Post-mortemsz 76
Section V.—Sanitary Circumstances
of the District.
Inspections 76
Notices served and result of service 77
Nuisances—Legal Proceedings 78