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Barking 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION A
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
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Birth Rate 1
Deaths 1
Employment 5-6
Head Lice 6
Infant Mortality 2-3
Maternal Mortality 1-2
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Neo-Natal Mortality 2
Nurses Act, 1943 6
Parks and Open Spaces 4-5
Population 1
Social Conditions 4-6
Still Births 2 and 4
SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Alphabetical Summary of Services Provided with Sketch Plan Pages 7-14
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Ambulance Service 25-26
Analgesia in Domiciliary Midwifery 17
Ante-Natal Service 17
Attendances at Clinics 14,20
Barking Maternity Unit 20
Chiropody Clinic 20-22
Clinics and Treatment Centres 20
Day Nurseries 18-19
Dental Service 22-23
Ear, Nose ; nd Throat Service 23
Health Visaing 15
Home Helps 26-28
Hospital Facilities 19-20
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Infant Life Protection 15
Infant Welfare 14-15
Maternity Service 16-18
Midwifery 16-17
Ophthalmic Service 24
Orthopaedic Service 24
Paediatric Clinic 24-25
Post-Natal Clinics 17
Scabies 25
Skin Clinic 25
Squint Training 24
Vitamins 15
SECTION C
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
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Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis (Infantile
Paralysis) 29,31
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 29
Diphtheria 29,30
Dysentery 29
Encephalitis 29
Erysipelas 29
Food Poisoning 29
Immunisation 29—30
Mass Radiography 32
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Measles 29,30-31
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 29
Paratyphoid Fever 29
Pemphigus Neonatorum 29
Pneumonia 29,31
Scarlet Fever 29, 30
Tuberculosis 31-32
Venereal Diseases 32
Whooping Cough 29, 30
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