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 Croydon]
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CONTENTS.
A.—PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT.
Page.
Introductory 3
Statistical Summary 7
Section I.—Population, births, deaths, nursing facilities 8
„ II.—Infectious diseases 21
„ III.—Tuberculosis 45
„ IV.—Maternity and child welfare 53
„ V.—Mental deficiency 64
„ VI.—Venereal diseases 67
„ VII.—Housing 68
„ VIII.—Sanitary administration 69
„ IX.—Appendix with statistical tables 102
Page
Acts, adoptive 69
Ambulance service 42
Ante-natal clinic 53
Bacteriological examination 43
Bakehouses 76
Births 56
Birth control, report 61
Borough Hospital 40
Bye-laws and regulations 69
Clinics 14
Contacts, tuberculosis 46
Convalescent homes 59
Cowkeepers 89
Cross-infections 42
Croydon Corporation Act, 1924 81
Croydon Nursing Service 13
Dairies, cowsheds and milkshops 89
Deaths 7
Diarrhoea, epidemic 23
Diphtheria 22
Dispensary, tuberculosis 45
Dried milk 59
Encephalitis lethargica 22
Enteric fever 23
Expectant mothers 53
Factories & Workshops Acts 76
Foods, inspection of 87
Foods & Drugs Acts, Sale of 94
Foster children 58
Grangewood, special school 65
Health visitors, work of 53, 57
Page.
Home Nursing 13, 46
Homework 76
Hospitals 67
Hostel, St. Mary's (maternity) 55
Housing 73
Illegitimacy 9
Infant Welfare clinics, municipal 57
„ „ „ voluntary 57
Infant mortality 12
Infectious diseases 21
Laboratory work 43
Local Acts 69
Lodging houses, common 77
Massage clinic 58
Maternity home 55
Maternity Homes, registration 54
Measles 23
Meat inspection 85
Medical help records 55
Meningitis 22
Mental deficiency 64
Medicines 46
Midwives 13, 54
Milk, provision of 58
Milk and Cream Regulations 98
Milk, tuberculous 89
Milkshops 90
Mixed infections 42
Mortality in child-birth 7
Mothers' and Infants' Welfare
Association 57
Notification of Births Acts 56
Nuisances 70
Nursing arrangements 13