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CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
REPORT OF THE COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1927.
Vital Statistics— Page
Population—Marriages—Births—Deaths—Infant Mortality 6
Infectious Diseases—
Smallpox 7
Measles—Whooping-cough—Scarlet Fever—Diphtheria 10
Diarrhoea and Enteritis—Typhoid Fever—Anthrax 11
Plague and Cholera—Typhus—Cerebro-Spinal Fever—Poliomyelitis—
Polioencephalitis—Encephalitis lethargica—Influenza 12
Tuberculosis
Cancer 16
Statistical Table 23
Administration—
Common and Seamen's Lodging Houses—Homeless Persons—Verminous
Lodgers 24
Housing Acts
Statistical Information 25
Sanitary Officers, Milk and Dairies Act 27
Venereal Diseases 28
Tuberculosis 30
Dispensaries (Analysis of Returns) 32
Laboratory Work 36
Midwives Acts and Children Acts 39
Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 43
Blind Persons Act 44
Chemical Branch 46
Observations of Visibility and Actinicity 49
Chapter II.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE
YEAR 1927.
Staff—School Buildings 51
Results of Medical Inspection 55
„ „ Higher Education Institutions 61
Dental condition of school children 63
Health of leavers—Insufficient sleep 67
Following-up 69
Chronic Invalidity 72
Medical Treatment 73
Rheumatic Children 81
Personal Hygiene Scheme 89
Physical Education (Teaching of Hygiene) 90