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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
Wealdstone 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wealdstone]
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will account for a large number of deaths. Health
Authorities throughout the country are doing their best
to find a remedy for these defects, and 110 doubt as time
DIAGRAM 2.
SHOWING INFANTILE MORTALITY, OR PROPORTION OP DEATHS
UNDER 1 YEAR, PER 1,000 BIRTHS.
goes on the lower classes will become much better informed
in these matters, and a corresponding improvement
in this rate will accrue.
At the approach of hot weather leaflets dealing with
the prevention of Summer diarrhoea in infants and young
children were again distributed from house to house with