Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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SECTION 2—-Continued. PAGE
Sale of Food and Drugs Act 32
Improvement of Existing Housing Conditions 32
Overcrowding 33
Schools 33
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces, etc 34
SECTION 3—NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Table of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified and removed to
Hospital 38
Cases Classified According to Age Groups and Wards 40
Monthly Summary of Receipt of Notifications 41
Scarlet Fever 42
Smallpox and Vaccination 42
Diphtheria 42
Puerperal Fever 43
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 43
Pneumonia Supervening upon Measles 43
Non-notifiable Diseases 43
Table of Admissions and Discharges from Hospital 44
Tuberculosis 44
Tuberculosis After-care 48
SECTION 4—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907-1915 50
Ante-Natal Clinic 51
Post-Natal Cases 52
Maternity Ward 53
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 54
Maternal Mortality 55
Neonatal. Mortality 55
Still Births 56
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 57
Work of Health Visitors and Infant Welfare Centres 58
The Pre-School Child 59
Foster Children 59
Infantile Mortality 59
Dental Clinic 60
Orthopaedic Clinic 61
Artificial Sunlight Clinic 62
Provision of Meals and Fresh and Dried Milk 63