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CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
REPORT OF THE COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1928.
Vital Statistics— Page
Population—Marriages—Births—Fertility of Married Women—Deaths—
Infant Mortality 5
Infectious Diseases—
Smallpox 7
Measles—Whooping-cough—Scarlet Fever—Diphtheria—Diarrhœa and
Enteritis 10
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia—Maternal Mortality 11
Enteric Fevers—Anthrax—Plague and Cholera—Typhus—Cerebrospinal
Fever—Poliomyelitis—Polioencephalitis—Encephalitis
gica—Influenza 26
Rheumatic Fever 28
Tuberculosis—Cancer 28
Statistical Table 30
Administration—
Common and Seamen's Lodging Houses—Homeless Persons—Verminous
Lodgers 29
Public Conveniences—Housing Acts—Underground Rooms 31
Statistical Information 32
Milk and Dairies Act 34
Venereal Diseases 38
Tuberculosis 42
Dispensaries (Analysis of Returns) 40
Laboratory Work 46
Midwives Acts and Children Acts—Nursing Homes Registration Act 50
Mental Deficiency Acts 56
Blind Persons Act 60
Chemical Branch 61
Observations of Visibility and Actinicity 64
Chapter II.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE
YEAR 1928.
Staff—School Buildings 66
Results of Medical Inspection 67
Incidence of Flat Feet 73
Rheumatism in Children 75
Special Enquiries—Refractive errors of Childhood—High Myopia—Children
in Hop Fields—Slum Children 84
Following-up 101
Chronic Invalidity 104
Medical Treatment 105