London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Battersea 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. page
Vital Statistics 9
Births 10
Illegitimate Births 12
Marriages 12
Deaths 12
„ (Age Periods) 14
Deaths in Public Institutions 14
Senile Mortality 15
Comparative Table of Births, Mortality, etc.
(1857-1919) 16
Infant Mortality 17
Notification of Births Act 19
Milk Orders 20
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 24
Maternity and Infant Clinics 25
Health Visitors 26
Ante-Natal Work 27
Puerperal Fever 28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 28
Acute Polio-Myelitis 28
Diarrhœa 28
Measles and German Measles 29
Whooping Cough 30
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 31
Contacts 34
Small-pox 35
Scarlet Fever 36
Diphtheria 36
Enteric Fever 37
Erysipelas 37
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 37
Encephalitis Lethargica 37
Tuberculosis 38
Battersea Dispensary for Prevention of
Consumption 39
Tuberculosis—After-care 40
„ —Contacts 40
Home Treatment of Tuberculosis 41
Institutional Treatment 41
Day Sanatorium or Open-air School 41
Incidence of Tuberculosis 41
Non-Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Chicken-pox 44
Influenza 44
Bacteriological Examinations 46
Rabies 47
Anthrax 47