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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 1947
[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 5
Staff of Public Health Department 6
Statistics and Social Conditions 10
Extracts from Vital Statistics 12
Vital Statistics:
Comparative Crude Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of
Mortality, etc., 1947 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 17
Treatment Centres and Clinics 17
Immunisation against Diptheria 18
Immunisation against Whooping Cough 19
Hospitals 19
Cleanliness 20
Disinfection 21
Maternity and Child Welfare:
General Observations 21
Ante-Natal Supervision 21
Post-Natal Supervision 22
Consultant Obstetrician 23
Child Welfare Centres 23
Institutional Confinements 24
Home Help 24
Family Planning 24
Treatment:
Minor Ailments 25
Denta1 25
Orthopædic 26
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