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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1948
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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1. Members of Public Health Committee 3
2. Staff of the Department 3
3. Introduction 5
4. Vital Statistics 7
5. Infantile Mortality, 1948 11
6. Natural and Social Conditions 11
7. Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 12
8. General Provision of Health Services in the Area 12
9. Local Clinic Services 14
10. Maternity and Child Welfare:
(a) Ante-Natal Scheme 15
(b) Welfare Centres and Home Visiting 18
(c) Unmarried Mothers 19
(d) Adoption Act 19
(e) Special Treatments 21
(f) Boarded-out Children 21
(g) Obstetric Consultant's Service 21
(h) Dental Clinic 22
(i) Day Nurseries 23
11. Maternity Hospital 23
12. Notes on the local administration of the transferred services
(a) Maternity and Child Welfare 26
(b) Maternity Hospital 29
(c) Diphtheria Immunisation 31
(d) Civil Ambulance Service 32
13. Infectious Disease:
(a) Comments on Major Infectious Diseases 33
(b) Table of Cases 34
(c) Poliomyelitis 36
(d) Tuberculosis—Incidence and Deaths 39
14. Sanitary Inspection of the District—Report by Mr. G.
Webber, Chief Sanitary Inspector:
(a) Nuisances found and remedied 42
(b) Complaints 42
(c) Abatement of Nuisances 43
(d) Food Sampling 43
(e) Milk Sampling 44
(f) School Sanitation 47
(g) Food Wrapping 48
(h) Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 48