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Wimbledon 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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LIST OF CONTENTS.
Page
Introduction 1
List of Staff 4-6
SECTION A: STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS:
Statistics, etc. 7-9
Births Notified 9
Deaths Registered 10
Analysis of Causes of Death 10
Infantile Mortality 11-12
Summary of Statistics 13
SECTION B: GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES:
Laboratory Facilities 14
Ambulance Services 15
Maternity and Child Welfare: —
Health Visitors' Visits 16
Ante-Natal Clinics 16
Infant Welfare Centres 16
Midwifery and Maternity Services 17-18
Complicated Obstetric Cases 18
Care of Premature Infants 19
Care of Illegitimate Children 19
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 19-20
Treatment Facilities 21
Home Helps Service 22
Nursery Provision for Children under 5
Child Life Protection 23
Provision of Insulin 23
Nursing Homes 23
Infestation by Head-lice 23-24
Cleansing Facilities 24
SECTION C: SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:
Water Supply 25
Sampling of Water 25
Sanitary Inspectors' Visits 25
Notices Served 26
Nuisances abated and defects remedied 26-27
Factories Act, 1937, Part I. 28
Outworkers 29
Bakehouses 29
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