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General.
RECENT PUBLIC HEALTH LEGISLATION.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND ORDERS.
A register of the blind by the L.G.B.
Juvenile organisations Committee by the Home Office.
Mothers' Pensions.
Treatment of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers (Pensions
Board).
Medical certificates for men appearing before National Service
Medical Boards.
Notification of males of military age suffering from
Tuberculosis to the Chief Commissioner of Medical Services at
the Ministry of National Service.
Notification by the Chairman of any National Service Medical
Board of Tuberculosis to the M.O.H. of the district from which
the case came.
Notification to the L.G.B of cases of Malaria, and facilities
given for microscopic examinations of the blood.
A uniform form of certificate or notification by Medical
Practitioners for all notifiable infectious diseases.
Reports to the L.G.B, on Epidemic Influenza.
Exclusion of School children from Cinemas, etc., and the
ventilation and resting of such places.
The compulsory notification of Acute Encephalitis Lethargica
and Acute Polio-Encephalitis (cases producing an unusual group of
cerebral symptoms).
The Midwives Act, 1918, contains several important alterations
and a new scale of fees for medical assistance. This should be
under Local Control, but it is so far controlled by the County,
which is the Local Supervising Authority.
VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1918.
Total registered Births are 438, which gives a birth rate for
the year of 12.03, the lowest yet recorded.
The Infantile Mortality or number of deaths under 1 year