London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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CONTENTS.
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Members of the Health and Maternity and Child Welfare
Committees 5
Prefatory Letter 6
Staff 10
Part I.—Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area 12
Summary of Statistics 12
Social Conditions 13
Meteorology 14
Unemployment 14
Occupations 15
Population 15
Part II.—Vital Statistics 16
Births 16
Stillbirths 17
Deaths 18
Infantile Mortality 19
Maternal Mortality 20
Part III.—Maternity and Child Welfare 20
Details of Services 21
Centres and Clinics 22
Ante-Natal Clinic 23
Natal Services 24
Midwives 24
Midwives Acts, Administration of 25
Midwives, Inspection of 26
Maternity Hospital and Maternity Homes 26
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 27
Post-Natal 27
Home Visiting 27
Welfare Centres 29
Milk in Necessitous Cases 31
Institutional and Convalescent Treatment 31
Minor Ailments Clinic 32
Dental Clinic 32
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 32
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 32
Children and Young Persons Act, 1932 33
Part IV.—Summary of General Provision of Health Services 33
Legislation in Force 33-36
Hospitals 36
Maternity and Nursing Homes 36—37
Institutions, various 38
Ambulance Facilities 38
Laboratory Facilities 38
Clinics and Centres 39
Nursing in the Homes, District Nursing Associations 39