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

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West Ham 1952

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

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Handicapped children 35, 85
Health Education 57
Health Visiting 44 - 48
Hearing of School Children 75
Heart Disease & Rheumatism 77
Home Nursing 48
Housing 22-23
Houses - unfit 22
Hygiene of School premises 70
Ice Cream 20
Immunisation - diphtheria 1, 50 - 52
- whooping cough 50-52
Infant mortality 4, 42
Infectious diseases 1, 3, 4 - 7
Leavers (school) 95
Lunacy & Mental Treatment Acts 65
Maladjusted children 89
Maternal mortality 1, 4, 42
Maternity and Child Welfare 30-48
Analgesia 43
Clinic work 32-34
Convalescence 39
Day Nurseries 39
Dental Treatment 38
Health Visiting 46-48
Maternal deaths 42
Midwifery 43-46
Nurseries and Child Minders' Regulation Act 1948 39
Physiotherapy 76
Premature births 37
Sunlight treatment 76
Specialist Clinics 30
Toddlers' Clinics 32-34
Unmarried mother and child 31
Measles 3
Meat Inspection 12
Medical Inspection (school children) 69
Meningococcal Infection 3, 6
Mental Deficiency 66-68
Mental Health 6l - 68
Mental Health Social work 63
Midwifery 43-46
Milk, samples taken 10
Minor ailments (school children) 1, 71
Mortuaries 97
Multiple defects (school children) 90
National Assistance Act 1948, Sec. 47 68
National Health Service Act 1946 1, 27-68
Nose and throat defects (school children) 74
Nursery schools and Classes 94
Nutrition 70
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