London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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St Pancras 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Acute influenzal pneumonia 67
Acute primary pneumonia 37
Aged persons, care of 4, 49
Ambulance facilities 21
Analyst, Public 15
Anterior poliomyelitis and polio-encephalitis 37
Area of borough, wards, open spaces 17
Bacteriological examinations 43
Bakehouses 12, 54
Bed service—Emergency 22
Births—
illegitimate 30
notification of 62
numbers and rates since 1918 29
rates 5, 23, 29
registered live 23, 29
registered still, and rate 23
still—numbers and rates since 1929 30
Blind persons, care of 5, 49
Bodies received at mortuary 52
Burials 52
Cancer, Deaths from 24, 25, 26
Cerebro-spinal meningitis 38
Chief officers of the Council 13
Child guidance 67
Child life protection 66
Children, illegitimate, care of 67
Chiropody clinics 67
Cleansing and disinfecting 44
Clerical staff 15
Climatological summary 18
Committees, members of 13
Complaints 6
Condemned food 61
Coroner's Court 52
Daily guardians 67
Day nurseries 20
Day nurseries, staff 16
Deaths—
bronchitis 24, 26
cancer 24, 25, 26
classification, with age distribution 24
heart disease 24, 26
illegitimate children 30
infantile deaths and rates 5, 26, 29
infantile, with causes, age and ward distribution 27
maternal 24, 31
neo-natal 6, 29
number and rate, all ages 23, 29
pneumonia 24, 26
tuberculosis 24, 32, 33
Dental treatment 63
Diphtheria 38
Diphtheria immunisation 38, 39
Disinfection 46
District Nursing Associations 65
Drainage work 48
Dysentery 39
Emergency Bed Service 22
Encephalitis lethargica 39
Enteric or Typhoid Fever 40
Erysipelas 40
Factories and bakehouses 12,54
Factory Inspectors 15
Factory Inspectors, work of 54
Food—
condemned 61
hygiene of 9
inspectors 15
inspectors, work of 57
poisoning 40
sampling 58
summonses 60
unsound 61
Foot clinics 67
Foreword by M.O.H. 4
Health visitors 16
Health visitors, visits by 63
Home and domestic helps 66
Home nursing 65
Hospitals in the Borough 20
Houses and flats erected 8, 53
Housing 7, 53
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Ice cream 10, 59
Illegitimate children, care of 67
Infantile mortality—
causes, age and ward distribution 27
causes, since 1939 28
numbers and rates since 1918 29
rates 5, 26, 29
Infectious diseases 6, 36
Inspectors—housing, food, factory and district 15
Invalid Children's Aid Association 66
Legal proceedings 7, 48, 60
Licensed premises 11,50
Malaria 40
Marriages 19
Maternal mortality 24, 31
Maternity and Child Welfare—
centres 19
committee members 13
sessions and attendances 64
staff 16
Maternity cases—beds for 66
Measles 40, 41
Meat and other foods—inspections 58
Medical staff 15, 16
Midwifery grants 65
Milk: inspections, samples, etc. 58
Mortality, infantile—see Infantile mortality.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 52
Notices served 47, 54, 57
Notifiable diseases 34
Notifications—
births 62
infectious diseases 37
Nurseries, Day 20
Nursing Associations 65
Nursing, Home 65
Ophthalmia neonatorum 41
Outworkers 56
Pharmacy and Poisons 50
Pneumonia 37
Poliomyelitis and polio-encephalitis 37
Population 5, 23, 26, 29
Population, since 1918 29
Post-mortem examinations 52
Premature infants, care of 66
Public Analyst 15
Public Health Annexe—attendance at 44, 45
Public Health Committee members 13
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930 70
Public houses 11, 50
Puerperal fever and pyrexia 41
Rat extermination 51
Registrars of births, deaths and marriages 14
Rodent control 51
Sanitary circumstances 6, 47
Sanitary inspectors 15
Sanitary inspectors, work of 6, 47, 48
Scabies 42,44
Scarlet fever 42
School treatment centres 21
Smallpox and vaccination 42
Staff 15, 16
Statistics, Vital 5, 19, 23, 29, 30
Stillbirths 23, 30
Summonses—see Legal proceedings.
Tuberculosis—
Death rate 68
deaths 24, 26, 32, 33, 68, 69
dispensary 19
dispensary, staff 16
new cases 68
notification register 71
notifications 68, 70
prevalence and fatality for past ten years 71
Typhoid or enteric fever 40
Unsound food 61
Vaccination 42
Verminous persons 44
Vital statistics 5, 19, 23, 29, 30
Water 50
Welfare centres 19
Whooping cough 34
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