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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1947
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page
1. Members of Health & Welfare Committee 3
2. Staff of the Department 3
3. Introduction 5
4. Infantile Mortality, 1947 9
5. Natural and Social Conditions9
6. Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 9
7. Housing—Report of Survey carried out in June, 1947 At end
8. General Provision of Health Services in the Area:
(a) Hospitals provided by Public Authorities 10
(b) Local Services provided by Voluntary Organisations 10
(c) Ambulance Service 11
(d) Clinic Services provided by Public Authorities 12
9. Maternity and Child Welfare:
(a) Ante-Natal Scheme 13
(b) Welfare Centres and Home Visiting 15
(c) Unmarried Mothers 17
(d) Adoption Act 17
(e) Premature Infants 18
(f) Boarded-out Children. 19
(g) Special Treatments 19
(h) Obstetric Consultant's Service 20
(i) Dental Clinic 21
(j) Day Nurseries. 21
10. Maternity Hospital Accommodation. 23
11. Infectious Disease:
(а) Diphtheria Immunisation 26
(b) Table of Cases 27
(c) Comments on Major Infectious Diseases 28
(d) Poliomyelitis 28
(e) Tuberculosis—Incidence and Deaths 33
12. Sanitary Inspection of the District—-Report by Mr. G. A.
Webber, Chief Sanitary Inspector: 35
(a) Nuisances found and remedied 37
(b) Complaints 38
(c) Abatement of Nuisances 39
(d) Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 40
(e) Milk Sampling 43
(f) Food Sampling 43
(g) Meat Inspection 45
(h) Shops Act Inspections 46
(i) Ice Cream Regulations 46
Vital Statistics Inset