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 42
Schools 42
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces, etc. 43
Improvement of Existing Housing Conditions 46
Overcrowding 47
SECTION 3—NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Table of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified and removed to
Hospital 49
Cases Classified According to Age Groups and Wards 51-52
Monthly Summary of Receipt of Notifications 53
Scarlet Fever 53
Smallpox and Vaccination 53
Diphtheria 55
Puerperal Fever 55
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 56
Pneumonia Supervening upon Measles 56
Non-notifiable Diseases 56
Table of Admissions and Discharges from Hospital 56
Tuberculosis 56
Tuberculosis After-care 60
Asbestosis 60
SECTION 4—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907-1915 61
Ante-Natal Clinic 62
Post-Natal Cases 62
Maternity Ward 63
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 64
Maternal Mortality 65
Neonatal Mortality 65
Still Births 65
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 66
Work of Health Visitors and Infant Welfare Centres 67
The Pre-School Child 68
Foster Children 68
Infantile Mortality 68
Dental Clinic 68
Orthopaedic Clinic 69
Artificial Sunlight Clinic 70
Provision of Meals and Fresh and Dried Milk 71