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CONTENTS.
Chapter XXXII.
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Public Health Reports—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and School Medical
Officer for the year 1912—Part I. (Vital Statistics and Administration)
A—Vital Statistics.—Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infantile mortality—Principal
epidemic diseases—Smallpox and vaccination—Measles—Scarlet fever—Diphtheria—Whooping-cough—Typhus—Enteric
fever—Diarrhoea and enteritis—Erysipelas—Puerperal fever—
Influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia—Phthisis—Cancer—Cerebro-epinal fever—Poliomyelitis
—Anthrax—Glanders and hydrophobia in man—Leprosy—Meteorology—
B—Administration.—Dairies, cowsheds and milkshops—Offensive businesses—Nuisances—Housing
of the Working Classes—Underground rooms—Overcrowding—Houses let in lodgings—Death
rates in Council's dwellings—Common lodging houses—Seamen's lodging houses—Cleansing
of Persons Act, 1897—Vermin inquiry—Water supply to tenement houses—Revenue Act,
1903—Factory and Workshop Act—Places where food is prepared for sale—Inspection of
food—Shelters—Mortuaries—National Insurance Act—Homeless persons—Sanitary officers
—Inspection of theatres, music halls, etc.—Rag Flock Act, 1911—Water supply—Intercepting
traps—Equalisation of Rates Act—Midwives Act 55
Public Health Reports (continued)—Special reports submitted during 1912 by the Medical
Officer of Health 91
I.—Census of homeless persons
II.—Sanitary staffs of City Corporation and metropolitan borough councils
III.—London Life Table, 1901-1910
Chapter XXXIII.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Report of the County Medical Officer and School Medical
Officer for the year 1912—Part II. (Education)
Introductory Note.—Medical Inspection and Treatment—Government grant—Development during
year—"Following up "—After-care—Infectious diseases—Cleansing and personal hygiene
schemes 20
Medical Inspection (Elementary Schools)—Results of inspection under the headings of the several
ailments found—Comparison of age groups—Condition of school children with reference to
environment and social status—Early tuberculosis and X-ray examination ... ... ... 123
Medical Inspection (Training Colleges, Secondary, and Trade Schools) 130
Medical Treatment—Development of scheme—Hospitals, treatment centres—Progress made during
1912—Dental treatment 37
Re-Inspection 41
Education (Provision of Meals) Act 142
Physical Exercises for Children Suffering from Defects 142
Infectious Diseases—Amendment of regulations—Scarlet fever and diphtheria—Measles—Whooping
cough and chickenpox—Ophthalmia—Ringworm—Favus—Exclusions from school—Places
of detention—Residential, industrial and special schools145
Open-Air schools—Birley House—Shooter's Hill 160
Playground Classes 164
Examination of Candidates—For the permanent service—Teachers and county scholars 175
Personal Hygiene Schemes.—Verminous heads—Verminous persons and clothing—Children's
Country Holiday Fund 178
Flea Prevalence, 1909-12 183
Schools for Defective Children.—Mentally defective—Physically defective—Deaf and partially
deaf—Blind, partially blind, and myope 184
Visual Defects of Children Referred for Treatment 201
Sizes of Types in School Books, etc 205
Industrial Residential Schools, and Places of Detention 210
Miscellaneous.—Children out of school on account of illness—Instruction in swimming—School
journeys—School buildings—Playgrounds—School gardens—Health of teachers 210