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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
Walthamstow 1947
[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 12
Section C.—Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 19
Section D.—Housing 24
Section E.—Inspection and Supervision of Food 27
Section F.—Prevalence and Control over Infectious Diseases 36
Section G.—Infectious Diseases Hospital 49
Section H.—Maternity and Child Welfare 56
Section I.—Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital 84
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Abortion 82
Adoption 70
Acreage 7
Adulteration 32
Ambulance Facilities 12
Ante-Natal Clinics 69, 87
Assessments 7
Bacteriological Analyses 29,33
Births 8, 10, 57
„ Notification of 57
„ Registration of 58
Birth Rate 8
Breast Feeding 67, 92
Cancer 11
Caravans 22
Care of Illegitimate Children 63
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
36, 37, 38, 46
Child Guidance 75
Child Life Protection 70
Child Welfare 66
„ „ Clinics 66, 70
Clinics 13
Committees 4, 56
Compensation (Midwives) 80
Confinements 76
Connaught Hospital 17
Cremation 52
Day Nurseries 59
Deaths 8, 9, 10, 11
„ Infants 8, 65
,, Infectious Diseases 38
Death Rate 8
Dental Treatment 15,74
Diphtheria 36, 37, 38, 42
„ Immunisation 38
Diseases of Animals Acts 33
Disinfestation 23
District Midwifery 81
Domestic Help 53
Dysentery 36, 37, 38, 43
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Emergency Unit 85
Encephalitis Lethargica 36, 37, 38
Enteric Fever 36, 37, 38, 43
Erysipelas 36, 37, 38, 45
Evacuation of Expectant
Mothers 78
Essex County Council Act 19
Exhibition, Health 53
Factories Act, 1937 35
Food 6? Drugs Act, 1938 32
Food Inspection 27
Foot Clinic 13
Gas and Air Analgesia 80
Grants 52, 73
Health Visitors 66
Home Helps 76
„ Visits 67, 68
Hospital Accommodation 77
„ Infectious Disease 49
Housing 24, 26
Act, 1936 26
„ Conditions 67
„ Inspections 24
Ice Cream 28
Immunisation 38
Infant Mortality 8,60,92
Infectious Diseases Clinic 38
„ „ Hospital 49
Infestation 69
Institutional Treatment 16, 76
Inquests 52
Invalid Children's Aid Assn. 75
Insulin 53
Laboratory Services 40
Malaria 36, 37, 38, 46
Massage 70
Maternal Mortality 83, 94
Maternity and Child Welfare 56
„ Homes 78