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

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West Ham 1949

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

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Gurney Special School 60, 6l
Handicapped children 56
Health Visiting 22
Heart Disease 47, 48
Home Nursing 2, 29, 30
Houses - unfit 20
Hygiene of School premises 40
Ice Cream 16
Imuranisation - diphtheria 6, 64
- whooping cough 7
Infant mortality 1, 4, 28, 29, 68
Infectious diseases 4 4
Leavers (school} 64
Lunacy & Mental Treatment Acts 36-37
Maladjusted children 59
Maternal mortality 4, 28, 29
Maternity and Child Welfare 22-31
Analgesia 28
Child life protection 25
Clinic work 22, 23
Convalescence 24
Day Nurseries 26, 27
Dental treatment 30-31
Health Visiting 22
Maternal deaths 28, 29
Midwifery 28
Nurseries and Child Minders' Regulation Act 1948 27
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 7
Premature births 25 - 26
Puerperal Pyrexia 7
Sunlight treatment 24
Specialist Clinics 24
Unmarried mother and child 25
Measles 1, 6
Meat Inspection 13 - 14, 69
Medical inspection (school children) 39, 70, 71
Mental Deficiency 37 - 38
Mental Health 34, 35 - 38
Mental Health Social work 36-38
Midwifery 28
Milk, samples taken 9, 10, 11
Minor ailments (school children) 42, 43, 70, 71
Mortuaries 67
Multiple defects (school children) 60
National Assistance Act 1948, Sec. 47 38
National Health Service Act 1946 32-38
Nose and throat defects (school children) 71
Nursery schools and classes 63, 64
Nutrition 41
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 7
Ophthalmic Clinic 43-44
Orthopaedic and postural defects 47
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