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CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
REPORT OF THE COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1929.
Vital Statistics— Page
Population—Marriages—Births—Fertility of Married Women—Deaths—
Infant Mortality 5
Infectious Diseases—
Smallpox 6
Measles—Whooping-cough—Scarlet Fever—Diphtheria—Diarrhœa and
Enteritis 9
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 10
Enteric Fevers—Anthrax—Plague and Cholera—Typhus—Cerebrospinal
Fever—Poliomyelitis—Polioencephalitis—Encephalitis
gica—Influenza 10
Rheumatic Fever—Cancer 13
Tuberculosis—Phthisis Mortality in Mental Hospitals 14
Statistical Table 18
Administration—
Common and Seamen's Lodging Houses—Homeless Persons—Verminous
Lodgers—House Refuse 20
Public Conveniences—Drainage By-laws, Public Abattoirs 21
Housing Acts—Overcrowding—Underground Rooms 23
Statistical Information 26
Milk and Dairies Act 28
Venereal Diseases 30
Tuberculosis 32
Dispensaries (Analysis of Returns) 36
Laboratory Work 39
Midwives Acts and Children Acts—Nursing Homes Registration Act41
Mental Deficiency Acts 45
Blind Persons Act 51
Chemical Branch 51
Chapter II.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE
YEAR 1929.
Staff—School Buildings 59
Results of Medical Inspection, Canal Boat Children, Health of Jewish Child 65
Inspection in Secondary and Trade Schools 72
Following-up74
Chronic Invalidity—Employment of School Children 77
Medical Treatment—Dental Treatment—Stammerers' Classes 78
Personal Hygiene Scheme 87
Rheumatism Scheme 88
Special Enquiries—Myopia—Infant Feeding—Postural Defects 104