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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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION iii
ORGANISATION CHART i
SECTION A
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
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Birth Rate 2-3
Deaths 3-5
Employment 6
Infant Mortality 3-5
Maternal Mortality 3
Neighbourhood Units 6
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Nurses Act, 1943 7
Nutrition 7
Old Age 2
Social Services 5
Still Births 3-4
SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA.
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Ambulance Service 27
Analgesia in Domiciliary Midwifery 16
Ante-Natal Clinics 15
Barking Hospital 26
Breast Feeding 11
Broncho-Pneumonia 13-14
Chiropody Clinic 21-23
Day Nurseries 17-18
Dental Service 24-25
Ear, Nose and Throat Service 20
General District Nursing 27
Home Helps 27-28
Home Visiting 8-11
Hospital Facilities 25-27
Infantile Mortality Rate 8
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Infant Welfare 8-11
Infant Welfare Clinics 8-10
Maternity Service 14-17
Midwifery 14-15
Neo-Natal Mortality 11
Ophthalmic Service 25
Orthopaedic Service 18-20
Pain in Childbirth 15-17
Prematurity 11-13
Scabies 24
Skin Clinic 23
Squint Training 25
Tight Shoes 21-22
Upney Hospital 26-27
Vitamins 12
SECTION C
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
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Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 35
Diarrhoea in New Born 38
Diphtheria 29-31
Immunisation 29, 31
Measles 34
Paratyphoid 35
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Pneumonia 35
Scarlet Fever 32
Tuberculosis 36-37
Typhoid 35
Venereal Diseases 38
Whooping Cough 33
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