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CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
REPORT OF THE COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1926.
Vital Statistics— Page
Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infant Mortality 5
Infectious Diseases—
Smallpox 7
Measles—Whooping-cough—Scarlet Fever—Diphtheria 12
Diarrhoea and Enteritis—Typhoid Fever—Anthrax 14
Plague and Cholera—Typhus—Cerebro-Spinal Fever—Poliomyelitis—
Polioencephalitis—Encephalitis lethargica 15
Influenza 18
Tuberculosis 18
Cancer 27
Statistical Table 28
Administration—
Common and Seamen's Lodging Houses—Homeless Persons—Verminous
Lodgers 29
Statistical Information 30
Housing Acts—Sanitary Officers 31
Venereal Diseases 33
Tuberculosis 34
Dispensaries (Analysis of Returns) 36
Poliomyelitis 41
Laboratory Work 42
Midwives Acts and Children Acts 48
Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 52
Blind Persons Act 53
Chemical Branch 54
Observations of Visibility and Actinicity 57
Chapter II.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE
YEAR 1926.
Staff—School Buildings 63
Results of Medical Inspection 71
„ „ Higher Education Institutions 77
Following-up 78
Chronic Invalidity—Medical Treatment 81
Rheumatism in Childhood 88
Work of the School Nurse 90
Personal Hygiene Scheme 96
Open-air Education 97