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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 1945
[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 11
Extracts from Vital Statistics 12
Vital Statistics:
Comparative Crude Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of
Mortality, etc., 1945 13
Registered Causes of Death 14
Violence and Accident 15
Maternal Mortality 15
Infantile Mortality 16
General Provision of Health Services for the Area:
Laboratory Facilities 16
Ambulance Facilities 17
Nursing in the Home 18
Treatment Centres and Clinics 18
Diphtheria and Whooping Cough Immunisation 19
Hospitals 20
Cleanliness 21
Disinfection 22
Maternity and Child Welfare:
General Observations 22
Ante-Natal Supervision 23
Post-Natal Supervision 23
Consultant Obstetrician 24
Child Welfare Centres 25
Maternity Ward 26
Home Help 26
Birth Control 27
Treatment :
Minor Ailments 27
Dental 28
Orthopaedic 28
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