Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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SECTION IV.—(continued).
(a) Small-pox 41
Small-pox Hospital Accommodation 41
(b) Scarlet Fever 41
(c) Diphtheria 42
(d) Enteric Fever 42
(e) Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 42
(f) Ophthalmia Neonatorum 42
(g) Acute Influenzal and Acute Primary
Pneumonia 42
(h) Anthrax 42
(i) Plague 42
(j) Puerperal fever 43
Zymotic Diseases 43
Tuberculosis 43
Tuberculosis Care-Committee 43
Venereal Diseases 40
SECTION V.—OTHER SERVICES.
Bacteriological Laboratory
Table of Number of Specimens Examined 49
District Nursing 50
SECTION VI.—HOUSING 50
SECTION VII.—FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Factories 52
Workshops 53
Table I.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops
and Workplaces 54
„ II.—Defects Found 55
„ III.—Homework 56
„ IV.—Registered Workshops 57
„ V.—Other Matters 57
ISOLATION HOSPITAL 61
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915 69
Registration Act, 1836 69
Infant Mortality 69
Table IV. 74
Infant Life Protection 75
Work of Health Visitors 77
Supervision of Midwives 78
Supply of Milk to expectant and nursing Mothers
and for Infants 78
Infant Welfare Centres 79
Ante-Natal Clinic 80
Dental Clinic 80
Ophthalmic Clinic 81
Ophthalmia neonatorum 81
Treatment of Minor Ailments 82
Maternity Home 83
District Midwife 87
SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
Staff 91
Co-ordination 91
School Medical Service in Relation to Public Elementary
Schools 91