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London County Council 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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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 1922—Part I. (Vital Statistics
and Administration).
Introductory Note 1
A—Vital Statistics—Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infant mortality—Infectious
diseases—Smallpox—Measles—Whooping coughScarlet
fever—Diphtheria—Diarrhoea and enteritis—Tuberculosis—
Influenza—Cerebro - spinal fever—Poliomyelitis, polioencephalitis and
encephalitis lethargica—Plague and cholera—Anthrax—Typhus—-
Typhoid—Bacteriological work 2
B—Administration—Offensive trades—Lodging houses—Homeless persons—
Furnished rooms—Venereal diseases—Transmigrants—Housing—-Rag
and bone dealer—Dresser of fur skins—Tuberculosis—Mental deficiency
—Blind persons—Children Act, 1908—Midwives and lying-in homes—
Laboratory work 34
Statistical Tables.—I. Vital statistics—II. Administrative work—III.
Tuberculosis dispensaries 53
Chapter XXIV.
Public Health Reports (continued)—Report of the County Medical Officer
of Health and School Medical Officer for the year 1922—Part II.
(Education).
Introductory Note.—Medical inspection and treatment—Personal hygiene—
Infectious diseases 56
Results of Medical Inspection 58
Special Enquiries 65
Following-up 66
Medical Treatment 67
Board of Education Inspection of School Medical Service 69
Nursery Schools 71
Open-Air Education 73
Tuberculosis 74
Children Absent on Account of Ill-Health 75
Employment of School Children 76
Physical Exercises 76
Feeding of School Children 78
Personal Hygiene 78
Infectious Diseases 79
Residential, Special and Industrial Schools 87
Examination of Candidates 87
Dietaries 89
Defective Children 89
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 of
Inspections 95
Chapter XXV.
Public Health—Tuberculosis—Venereal disease—Infant life protection—
Lying-in homes—Midwives—Houses let in lodgings—Homeless
persons—Lodging houses—Offensive businesses—Milk—Measles and
verminous conditions—Epidemic, etc., diseases—Appeal Committee—
Health administration in London—Diseases of animals 100