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 Walthamstow]
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INDEX
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Section A.— Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area 7
Section B.— General Provision of Health Services in the Area 11
Section C.— Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 16
Section D.— Housing 21
Section E.— Inspection and Supervision of Food 24
Section F.— Prevalence and Control over Infectious Diseases 30
Section G.— Infectious Diseases Hospital 45
Section H.— Maternity and Child Welfare 50
Section I.— Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital 77
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Abortion 74
Adoption 64
Acreage 7
Adulteration 27
Ambulance Facilities 11,48
Ante-Natal Clinics 59, 63, 67, 79
Assessments 7
Bacteriological Analyses 27
Births 7, 52
,, Notification of 51
,, Registration of 52
Birth Rate 7,9
Breast Feeding 60, 82
Cancer 10
Caravans 20
Care of Illegitimate Children 55
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
9, 10, 30, 40
Child Guidance 68
Child Life Protection 63
Child Welfare 59
,, ,, Clinics
59, 62, 66, 79, 85
Clinics 12, 31
Committees 4, 50
Compensation (Midwives) 73
Connaught Hospital 14
Consultants 71
Cremation 48
Daily Guardians 54
Day Nurseries 37, 53
Deaths 7, 10, 75
,, Infants 55, 58, 82, 83
,, Infectious Diseases 10
Death Rate 7, 8, 9
Dental Treatment 13, 67
Dietetics 78, 84
Diphtheria 9, 10, 30, 35
,, Immunisation 32
Diseases of Animals Acts 28
Disinfestation 20, 62
District Midwifery 73
Domestic Help 48
Dysentery 30, 36
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Emergency Unit • 78
Encephalitis Lethargica 30, 38
Enteric Fever 9, 10, 30, 36
Erysipelas 9, 30, 39
Evacuation of Expectant
Mothers 70
Factories Act, 1937 28
Food & Drugs Act, 1938 27
Food Inspection 24
Foot Clinic 12
Gas and Air Analgesia 78
Health Visitors 59, 85
Home Helps 69
,, Visits 61, 67
Hospital Accommodation
14, 70, 77
,, Infectious Disease 45
Housing ,.21
Act, 1936 23
,, Conditions 60
,, Inspection 21
Ice Cream 20, 25
Immunisation 32
Infant Mortality 54, 55, 58
Infectious Diseases 30
,, ,, Ambulance
Service 48
,, ,, Clinic 31
,, ,, Hospital 45
Infestation 20, 62
Institutional Treatment 14, 70
Inquests 48
Invalid Children's Aid Asscn. 69
Insulin 49
Laboratory Service 33
Lectures to Midwives 71
Malaria 30, 40
Massage 65
Maternal Mortality 9, 75
Maternity & Child Welfare 50
,, Homes 70