London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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West Ham 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Fyfield Open-air School 66
Grange Road Special School 63-65
Handicapped children 59-66
Harold Wood Hospital 45
Health Visiting 22, 23, 30
Heart Dissease 52
Home Nursing 27, 28, 30
Hospitals 35, 40-44
Houses - unfit 19
Ice cream 19
Immunisation-diphtheria 7, 30, 66-67
- whooping cough 8, 30
Infant mortality 2-5, 26, 46
Infectious diseases 2, 4-9
Knox Road Special School 63-65
Langdon Hill Sanatorium 42
Leavers (school) 67
Lunacy & Mental Treatment Acts 31, 32
Maladjusted children 62
Maternal mortality 2, 4
Maternity and Child Welfare 22-30
Analgesia 27
Clinic work 27
Convalescence 24
Day Nurseries 26
Dental treatment 29
Forest Gate Hospital 43
Health Visiting 22, 23, 30
Maternal deaths 2,4
Midwaifery 26, 27,30
Ophtha1mia Neonatorum 9
Premature births 25, 26
Puerperal Pyrexia 9,
Sunlight treatment 24,
Unmarried mother and cnild 25
Measles 2, 7
Meat Inspection 21, 22
Medical inspection (school children) 47, 68
Mental Deficiency 31-33
Mental Health 31
Mental Health Social work 33-35
Midwifery 26, 27, 30
Milk, samples taken 11, 12
Minor ailments (school children) 48-49
Mortuaries 38
Multiple defects (school children) 63
National Assistance Act 1948, Sec. 47, 35
National Health Service Act 1946 30-35
Nerve Clinic 33-35
Nose and throat defects (school children) 50-51