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Barking 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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SFCTION 2—Continued. Page
(e) Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 39
(f) Markets 40
(g) Fried Fish Shops 40
(h) Ice Cream 40
(i) Unsound Food 41
Sale of Food and Drugs Act. 41
Halt and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 41
General Housing Conditions in the Area 42
Unhealthy Area 44
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces, etc. 44
SECTION 3—NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Table of Cast:- of Infectious Diseases notified and removed
to Hospital 48
Attack Rates for past Five Years 49
Cases Classified According to Age Groups and Wards 51
Monthly Summary of Receipt of Notifications 52
Scarlet Fever 53
Smallpox and Vaccination 53
Diphtheria 53
Puerperal Fever 54
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 54
Non-notifiable Diseases 55
Table of Admissions and Discharges from Hospital 55
Hospital Problems 56
Tuberculosis 57
Tuberculosis After-care 64
SECTION 4—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907-1915 66
Maternity Ward 67
Puerperal Sepsis 69
Maternal Deaths 69
Births 70
Still-births 70
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 72
Ante-natal Centres 72
Work of Health Visitors 73
Table of Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres 74
Neonatal Mortality 77
Denial Treatment 79
Provision of Meals 79
Foster Children 79
Convalescent Treatment 80
Illegitimacy 81
Infantile Mortality 81
Provision Fresh and Dried Milk 83