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
Woolwich 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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IX.—Maternity and Child Welfare.
General Reference 150
Notification of Births Acts 152
Work of the Health Visitors 153
Welfare Centres 155
Feeding of Infants 157
Artificial Sunlight Clinic 159
Treatment of Minor Ailments 166
Dental Treatment 166
Orthopaedic Treatment for Children under 5 Years 167
Provision of Nursing Assistance 168
Hospital Beds for Children under 5 Years 168
Institutional Midwifery 169
Supply of Milk, etc., to Necessitous Mothers and Children 172
Collective Instruction of Expectant and Nursing Mothers 174
Voluntary Centre 174
Administration of the Public Health (Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926 175
Research Work on the Health of the Toddler 177
Blind Persons Act, 1920 177
Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act,
1925 177
Meteorology.