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CONTENTS
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Members of the Public Health Committee . 4
Section A—Statistics and Social Conditions :—
General Statistics 4
Extracts from Vital Statistics 4
Maternal Mortality 4
Births 5
Marriages 5
Deaths .5
Infantile Mortality 6
Crematorium 6
Section B—General Provision of Health
Services :— -
Staff 6
Training of Sanitary Inspectors 6
Staff Medical Examinations 7
Laboratory Facilities 7
Home Nursing 7
Maternity and Child Welfare:—
Welfare Centres 7
Work of the Clinics 7
Student Health Visitors 7
Visitors to Centres and Nurseries 7
Home Visits 7
Milk and Vitamin Products 7
Sheets for Expectant Mothers 8
Home Help and Domestic Help Services 8
Child Life Protection 8
Illegitimate Children .8
Premature Infants 8
Dental Treatment 8
Foot Clinic 8
Remedial Exercises 8
Child Guidance 8
Maternity Cases 8
Domiciliary Midwifery 8
Maternity Survey 8
Family Planning Clinic 9
Convalescent Homes 9
Care of Old People 9
Day Nurseries 9
Section C—Sanitary Circumstances :—
Sanitary Inspection 9
Sanitary Provisions by Railway Authorities 10
Water 10
Drainage 11
Combined Drainage 11
Building Licences 11
Public Conveniences 11
Public Cleansing and Salvage 11
Shops 11
Diseased or Infirm Persons 11
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 12
Disinfestation 12
Verminous Persons 12
Shelter 12
Rats and Mice 12
Dog Nuisance 13
Pigeons 13
Noise 13
Smoke 13
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Poisons 13
Factories 13
Section D—Housing:—
Permanent Schemes 13
Adaptation of Premises 14
St. Marylebone Housing Association 14
"'Half-way" Houses 14
Finchley Road and St. John's Wood Park Areas 14
Fisherton Street Housing Estate 14
Crawford Place Dwellings 14
Inspection of Dwelling Houses 14
Underground Rooms 14
Re-housing 14
Housing of Persons from Abroad 14
Common Lodging Houses 15
Rent Restriction Acts 15
Section E—Food :—
Transfer of Ministerial Functions 15
Food Analysis 15
Legal Proceedings 16
Milk 16
Butter and Margarine Premises 16
Ice Cream16
Preserved Food 17
Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers17
Bakehouses17
Restaurants, etc.17
Hygienic Paper Drinking Vessels17
Unsound Food18
Horseflesh 18
Slaughter of Animals 18
Section F—Infectious and Other Diseases :—
Notifications 18
Puerperal Fever 18
Psittacosis (Parrot Disease)18
Diphtheria Immunisation 19
Vaccination 19
International Certificates of Vaccination and
Inoculation 19
Scabies 19
Impetigo 19
Venereal Diseases 19
Insulin 19
Food Poisoning 19
Tuberculosis :—
New Cases and Mortality 20
Notifications 20
Dispensary 20
Institutional Treatment 20
Dental Treatment 20
Maintenance Allowances 20
Government Rehabilitation Scheme 20
Care Committee 20
Disinfection 20
Bacteriological Examinations 20
Appendix I — National Health Service Act,
1946 — Transfer of Functions 21
Appendix II — Maternity and Child Welfare in
St. Marylebone, 1906-1948 22