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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 1929
[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 3
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 3
Preface 8
I.—General Statistics.
Social Conditions 13
Population 15
Sickness and Invalidity 16
II.—Vital Statistics.
Annual Statistics 17
Births 19
Marriages 21
Deaths 21
Maternal Mortality 31
Child Mortality 33
Infantile Mortality 34
III.—General Provision of Health Services.
Hospitals 40
Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers 42
Ambulance Facilities 42
Clinics and Treatment Centres 43
Staff 45
Professional Nursing in the Home 48
Midwives 49
Maternal Mortality 49
Chemical Work 49
Bacteriological Examinations 49
Adoptive Acts, By-laws and Regulations in force in the Borough 50
IV.—Health Propaganda.
General Reference 51
Cinematograph Projector 51
Health Week, 1929 51
Health Talks to School Children 53
Health Talks to Adults 56
Clean Food Demonstration 56
Other Matters 58