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 Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Page
Vital Statistics 8, 9, 107
Acreage, Population, Private Families and Dwellings 10
Marriages 11
Births 11
Illegitimate Births 12
Deaths in Borough and in Wards 13
„ in Age Periods 14
„ in Public Institutions 14
„ Senile 14
Causes and Age Distribution 109
Comparative Table of Births, Deaths, &c. (1857-1922) 15
Infant Mortality 16,17,110-113
Notification of Births Act 19
Illegitimate Infant Deaths 18
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 20
Centres 20,21
Nursing Facilities 22
Health Visitors 22
Milk Order 23
Ante-Natal Work 24
Hospital Provision 21
V.D. 24, 25
Maternity Hospital 26
District Midwifery Service 29
Dental Clinic 30
Infectious Diseases.—(i.) Notifiable 32
Summary of Notifications33,108
Bacteriological Examinations 37,45
Contacts 32,43
Smallpox 32
Scarlet Fever 34
Diphtheria 34
Enteric Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever 35
Encephalitis Lethargica, Puerperal Fever 35
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 36
Polio-Myelitis, Erysipelas 37
Tuberculosis 37-53
Cases Notified 37,38
Localisation of Disease 38
Deaths from Tuberculosis 38-40
Dispensary 41
(Report of) 41-46
Institutional Treatment 45
Open-Air School (Day Sanatorium) 46
Care Committee 48
Non-Dispensary Patients 49-52
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic 52
Summary Table 53
Zymotic Deaths 54
(ii.) Non-Notifiable Diseases 54-57
Chicken pox Influenza 54
Diarrhoea 56
Measles, Whooping Cough 56
Cancer 57