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CONTENTS.
Chapter XXXI.
Public Health Reports of the Medical Officer of Health (Sir Shirley Murphy) for the
year 1910 7
Vital Statistics—Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infantile mortality—Principal epidemic
diseases—Smallpox and vaccination—Measles—Scarlet fever—Diphtheria—Whooping-cough
—Typhus—Enteric fever—Diarrhœa—Erysipelas—Puerperal fever—Seasonal prevalence of
and mortality from infectious diseases—Influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia—Phthisis—
Cancer—Cerebro-spinal fever—Anthrax—Glanders—Hydrophobia—Meteorology.
Administration.—Dairies, cowsheds and milkshops—Offensive businesses—Nuisances—Housing of
the Working Classes Act—Common lodging houses—Houses let in lodgings—Houses infested
with vermin—Revenue Act, 1903—Underground rooms—Overcrowding—Factory and Workshop
Act—Places where food is prepared for sale—Inspection of food—Disinfection—Shelters
—Mortuaries—Cleansing of persons Act—Equalisation of Rates (London) Act—Water supply
—Health visitors—Midwives Act.
Chapter XXXII.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Special reports submitted by the Medical Officer of Health
during the year 1910 100
Chapter XXXIII.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Report of the Education Committee, submitting the
Report of the Medical Officer (Education) (Dr. J. Kerr) for the year 1910—Report of
the Medical Officer (Education) for the year 1910 122
Elementary Schools.—Staff—Medical inspection—School buildings—Nutrition—Physique-
Rheumatism—Report on an East-End school—Care of the teeth—Centres for dental treatment—Qualified
and unqualified dental treatment—Educational propaganda for dental
matters—Examination of candidates.
Training Colleges, Pupil Teacher Centres, Secondary and Trade Schools.—Medical inspection
—Personal cleanliness—Feeding—Games—Homework and nerve strain—Spinal curvature in
secondary schools—Kyphosis—Anthropometry.
Personal Hygiene Schemes.—Staff of nurses—Organisation—Heads—Bodies and clothing—Cleansing
stations—Sanitary authorities—Children's Country Holiday Funds—Ophthalmia—Scabies.
Medical Treatment.—Revision of treatment—Tonsils and adenoids—Suppurating ears—Ringworm.
Special Schools.—Schools for physically defective children—Epileptics—Combined mental and
physical defect—Remediable physical defect—Heart disease in schools for physically defective
children—The deaf—Lip reading and articulation.
Miscellaneous.—Appendicitis at Mayford Industrial School—Playground classes—Open-air schools
—Open-air residential schools—Kensal House tuberculosis school—Functional nervous trouble
—Stammering—Teachers' health in relation to ventilation and heating of schools—School
journeys—Private study of Hebrew—Disinfectants and cleansing.
Infectious Disease.—Comparative incidence—Schools under special observation—School closure—
Exclusion of unprotected children (measles)—Exclusion of all children under five—Diphtheria
—German measles.
Continuation School Work in Hygiene, etc.—Syllabuses—Voluntary aid detachments.
Chapter XXXIV.
Public Health—Infectious Diseases—Homeless persons—Transmigrants—Milk—Infant Life
Protection—Midwives—Health Visitors—Common Lodging Houses—Seamen's Lodging
Houses—Nuisances—Offensive businesses—Ice-cream—Mortuaries—Main DrainageAppeals—Diseases
of Animals 179
Chapter XXXV.
Housing of the Working Classes 190
Chapter XXXVI.
Housing Accounts and Statistics—Report of the Comptroller (Mr. H. E. Haward) submitting
Housing Accounts for the year ending 31st March, 1911—Memorandum of the Housing
Manager (Mr. S. G. Burgess), submitting Housing Statistics for the year ending 31st
March, 1911 197