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Walthamstow 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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INDEX.
Page
Natural and Social Conditions of the District 13
General Provision of Health Services in the Area 35
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 38
Housing 44
Inspection and Supervision of Food 52
Prevalence of, and Control over, Acute Infectious Diseases 55
Maternity and Child Welfare 67
School Medical Service 78
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
Officers and Staff 4
Statistical Summary 12
Physical Features 13
Drainage 13
Character of Population 15
Hospitals and Poor Law
Relief 22
Population 25
„ of Wards 28
Births 27
Rate 27,33
In Wards 28
Deaths 29
Rate 29, 33
Outer Zone of London 30
In Wards 30
Inquests 32
Senile Mortality 32
Zymotic Death-rate 33
Infantile Mortality Rate 33
Health Services 35
Ambulance Facilities 36
Clinics and Treatment
Centres 36
Legislation in Force 37
Midwives 37
Chemical Work 37
Sanitary Administration—
Sewage Disposal 13
Water Supply 38
Drainage 39
Scavenging 39
Sanitary Inspection of
Area 39
Smoke Abatement 43
Elementary Schools 43
Factory and Workshop
Act. 1901 49
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Housing 44
Overcrowding 44
Fitness of Houses 45
House-to-House Inspection 46
Unhealthy Areas 46
Statistics for Year 47
Unfit Dwelling-Houses 47
Food—
Milk Supply 52
Meat Inspection 53
List of Unsound Food
Destroyed 54
Infectious and Other Diseases—
Prevalence of, and control
over 55
Smallpox 35
Encephalitis Lethargica 74
Tuberculosis 74
Bacteriological Work 60
Diseases Isolated—
Enteric. Fever 61
Diphtheria 61
Scarlet Fever 62
Isolation Hospital —
Accommodation 60
Admissions, Discharges &
Deaths 63
Scarlet Fever 64
Diphtheria 65
Maternity and Child
Welfare 67
Council's Centre 67
Ante-Natal Clinic 67
Infant Consultations 68
"Brookscroft" Voluntary
Centre 70
Puerperal Fever 71
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 71
Measles and Whooping
Cough 71