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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 1938
[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
Committee 6
Staff 7
Prefatory Letter 11
Section A. Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area.
Summary of Statistics 14
Social Conditions 15
Meteorology 17
Unemployment 17
Occupations 18
Population 18
Vital Statistics :—
Births 19
Stillbirths 20
Deaths 20
Infantile Mortality 21
Maternal Mortality 24
Section B. (I). General Provision of Health Services for
the Area.
Laboratory Facilities 26
Ambulance Facilities 26
Nursing in the Home 26
Bromley and District Nursing Association 26
Hayes and West Wickham Nursing Association 26
Treatment Centres and Clinics provided by the
Local Authority 28
Tuberculosis Dispensary 29
Venereal Diseases Treatment Centres 29
Hospitals—Public and Voluntary 29
Public Health Act, 1936, Sec. 187/195, Nursing
Homes 30
Nursing Homes and Hospitals Tabulation ... 31
Other Institutions
Section B. (II). Maternity and Child Welfare.
Details of Services 34
Ante-Natal Clinics 35
Domiciliary Midwifery Service 36
Midwives 36
Administration of the Midwives Act, 1902-1936 37
Institutional Provision for Mothers and Children 38
Maternity Hospital 38
Puerperal Fever, Isolation and Treatment 39
Maternity and Nursing Homes 39
Post-Natal Services :—
Health Visitors—Home Visiting 39
Welfare Centres 39