London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wimbledon 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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LIST OF CONTENTS.
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Introduction 1
List of Staff 5-6
SECTION A: STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS:
Statistics, etc. 7-9
Births Notified 9
Deaths Registered 10
Infantile Mortality 11-12
Summary of Statistics 13
SECTION B: GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES:
Ambulance Services 14
Maternity and Child Welfare: —
Health Visitors' Visits 14
Ante-Natal Clinics and Infant Welfare Centres 15
Midwifery and Maternity Services 15-16
Complicated Obstetric Cases 16
Care of Premature Infants 16
Care of Illegitimate Children 17
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 17
Treatment Facilities 18
Home Helps Service 19
Nursery Provision for Children under 5 19
Child Life Protection 19
Provision of Insulin 19
Nursing Homes 19
Infestation by Head-lice 20
Cleansing Facilities 20
National Assistance Act, 1948 21
SECTION C: SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:
Water Supply 22
Sanitary Inspectors' Visits 22
Notices Served 23
Nuisances abated and defects remedied 24
Factories Act, 1937, Part I. 25
Outworkers 26
Bakehouses 26
SECTION D: HOUSING 27
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