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 Wimbledon]
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CONTENTS.
Medical Officer's Report.
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Public Health Committee 1
Staff 2
Administration 5
Extension of Sewage Works 8
Day Nursery Buildings 9
Heating at Isolation Hospital 9
Housing 10
Population 10
Vital Statistics—general 11
Births 12
Deaths 12
Infantile Mortality 13
Maternity and Child Welfare Work 15
Record of Work of Health Visitors 15
General Report 16
Classes for Mothers 17
Report of Work at Centres 18
Assistant Medical Officer's Report 19
Dental Clinic—Dental Officer's Report 21
Supply of Milk to Expectant and Nursing Mothers 22
South Wimbledon Day Nursery 23
Notifiable Diseases 24
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 24
Death-rate from Zymotic Diseases 25
Ward Distribution of Infectious Disease 27
Scarlet Fever 27
Diphtheria 28
Phthisis and other Tuberculous Diseases 29
Disinfections 30
Isolation Hospital 30
Summary of Local Nursing Arrangements 33
Laboratory Work 35
Mortuary 35
List of Adoptive Acts, Local Acts, &c. 36
Sanitary Inspection of District .37
Factories and Workshops .38
Table of Housing Conditions 40
Poor Law Relief 41
Table I.—Vital Statistics 42
Table II.—Causes of Death 43, 44
Sanitary Inspector's Report.
Abatement of Nuisances, &c. 45
Bakehouses 39
Common Lodging Houses 48
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 48
Disinfection 48
Diseases of Animals Acts 51
Factories and Workshops 49
Food Inspection 50
Food and Drugs Acts .50
House Drainage 46
House Inspection 46
House to House Inspection 46
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