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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
Woolwich 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Public Health and Housing Committee 2
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 2
do. Visiting Sub-Committee 2
Summary of Statistics 3
Preface 8
I.—Natural and Social Conditions.
Area 13
Population 13
Physical Features and General Characteristics 15
Inhabited Houses 15
Families 15
Rateable Value 15
Causes of Sickness 15
Poor Law Relief 16
Occupations 16
II.—Vital Statistics.
Annual Statistics 19
Births 20
Marriages 23
Deaths 23
Child Mortality 33
Infantile Mortality 34
III.—General Provision of Health Services.
Hospitals 42
Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers 43
Ambulance Facilities 43
Clinics and Treatment Centres 44
Staff 45
Professional Nursing in the Home 48
Midwives 49
Chemical Work 49
Adoptive Acts, By-laws and Regulations in Force in the Borough 49
Health Week, 1925 52