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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
Beddington and Wallington 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Public Health Committee 5
Maternity and Child Welfare Sub-Committee 5
Representatives on the Wandle Valley Joint Hospital Board 5
Representatives on the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board 6
Staff of Public Health Department 6
Statistics and Social Conditions 10
Extracts from Vital Statistics 11
Vital Statistics:
Comparative Crude Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of
Mortality, etc., 1944 12
Registered Causes of Death 13
Violence 14
Maternal Mortality 14
Infantile Mortality 16
lieneral Provision of Health Services for the Area:
Laboratory Facilities 35
Ambulance Facilities 16
Nursing in the Home 17
Treatment Centres and Clinics 17
Diphtheria Immunisation 18
Hospitals
Cleanliness 20
Disinfection 21
Maternity and Child Welfare:
General Observations 21
Ante-Natal Supervision 22
Post-Natal Supervision 22
Consultant Obstetrician 23
Child Welfare Centres 24
Maternity Ward 25
Home Help 25
Birth Control 26
Treatment:
Minor Ailments 26
Dental 27
Orthopaedic 27
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