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CONTENTS.
Chapter XXIII.
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Public Health Reports.—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and School Medical
Officer for the year 1921—Part I. (Vital Statistics and Administration).
Introductory Note 1
A—Vital Statistics.—Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infectious diseases—Smallpox—
Typhus fever—Plague and cholera—Anthrax—Tuberculosis—Measles—Scarlet fever—
Diphtheria—Diarrhœa—Typhoid—Influenza—Cerebro-spinal fever—Poliomyelitis and
polioencephalitis—Laboratory work 3
B—Administration.—Tuberculous milk—Offensive trades—Common and seamen's lodging houses—
Homeless persons—Housing of transmigrants—Housing—Sanitary staffs—Venereal diseases—
Tuberculosis—Mental Deficiency Act, 1913—Blind persons—Midwives Acts—Lying-in homes—
Children Act, 1908—Work of the chemical branch 16
Statistical Tables.—I. Vital statistics—II. Administrative work—III. Tuberculosis dispensaries 24
Chapter XXIV.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Report of the County Medical Officer of Health and
School Medical Officer for the year 1921—Part II. (Education).
Introductory Note.—Medical inspection and treatment—Personal hygiene—Infectious diseases—
Special schools 28
Results of Medical Inspection 29
Following-up 35
Employment of School Children 36
Children Absent on Account of Ill-Health 37
Medical Treatment 37
Nursery Schools 39
Open-Air Education 40
Personal Hygiene 41
Infectious Diseases 43
Dietaries 48
Examination of Candidates 48
Defective Children 49
Statistical Tables.—I. Inspections—II. Defects—III. Exceptional children—IV. Treatment of
minor ailments, visual defects, defects of nose and throat, dental defects—V. Summary of
treatment—VI. Summary—VII. Routine inspections—VIII. Summary, elementary schools
—IX. Summary, secondary, etc., schools 53
Chapter XXV.
Public Health—Tuberculosis—Venereal disease—Infant life protection—Lying-in homes—
Midwives—Houses let in lodgings—Housing of transmigrants—Homeless persons—
Lodging houses—Offensive businesses—Milk—Measles and verminous conditions—
Dead bodies at undertakers'—Appeal Committee—Health administration in London—
Diseases of animals 61
Chapter XXVI.
Main Drainage 69
Chapter XXVII.
Housing 72
Chapter XXVIII.
Housing Accounts and Statistics.—Memorandum by the Comptroller of the Council (Mr.
C. D. Johnson)—Memorandum by the Valuer (Mr. F. W. Hunt, F.S.I.) 78
Diagrams and Drawings.
Marriages, Births, Deaths (1841-1921) 2
London mortality—smallpox (1841-1921)—typhus (1869-1921)—diarrhœa and enteritis
(1862-1921)—infantile mortality (1858-1921)—typhoid fever (1900-21) 6
Seasonal prevalence of scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, erysipelas, puerperal fever, measles
and whooping-cough (1911-1920) 9
Summer infantile mortality 9
Seasonal incidence of measles, whooping-cough, scarlet fever and diphtheria (1891-1921) 44
Weekly prevalence of scarlet fever and fleas and mortality of scarlet fever (1909-21) 46