Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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
Preface 6
I.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Public Health Officers 11
Laboratory Facilities 15
Clinics and Treatment Centres 15
Ambulance Facilities 16
Professional Nursing in the Home 17
Hospitals 18
Midwifery and Maternity Services 19
Institutional Provision for Mothers and Children 19
Health Visiting 19
Infant Life Protection 19
Supply of Insulin 19
Vaccination 20
Adoptive Acts, By-laws and Regulations in Force in the District 21
Orthopaedic Treatment 22
School Medical Service (L.C.C.) 22
II.—HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
General Reference 25
Health Services Booklet 25
Health Week 25
The Cinema and Health Education of School Children 26
Talks to Selected Audiences 27
Cinema Projector 27
Films 27
Cookery Classes 27
Central Council for Health Education 27
"Better Health" 28
Posters 28
III.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
General Reference 30
Staff 31
Public Health (London) Act, Part XII. 31
The Work of the Health Visitors 32
Infant Life Protection 32
The Work of the Welfare Centres 34
Artificial Sunlight Clinic 37
The Care and Comfort of the Pre-School Child 38
Toddlers' Clinic 40
Provision of Maternity Outfits 46
Compensation to Midwives 46
Payment of Midwives' Fees 46
Administration of the Public Health (Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations,
1926 46
Obstetric Complications in Private Practice 46
Home Helps 46
Boarding-out of Children 47
Treatment of Minor Ailments 47
Dental Treatment 47
Orthopaedic Treatment for Children under Five Years of Age 48
Provision of Nursing Assistance 49
Children's Beds 49
Institutional Midwifery 50