[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Prefatory Letter 5 Dates of Receipt of District A nnual Reports for 1915 ... 6 Duties of County Medical Officers 6 THE HEALTH OF THE COUNTY, 1915. Statistical Summary (Table 1) 7 Population and Acreage (Table 2) ... ... ... 8 County Birth-rate (Table 3) ... 8 County Death-rate (Table 4) ... 9 Infant Mortality (Table 7) ... 10 Diarrhoea (Table 11) 12 Cancer (Table 12) 13 Tuberculosis (Table 13) 14 Epidemic Diseases. Epidemic Death-rates(Table 14) 17 Attack-rates (Table 15) 18 Smallpox 18 Chicken-pox 19 Measles and Whooping-cough 19 Scarlet-fever 19 Influenza 20 Diphtheria 20 Enteric or Typhoid Fever ... 21 Puerperal Fever 21 Erysipelas ... 21 Cerebro-spinal Fever 21 Pneumonia 22 Isolation Hospitals. Smallpox Hospitals 24 General Fever Hospitals ... 24 Antitoxin 25 Bacteriological Examination ... 25 Disinfection 25 PAGE Mental Defects 26 Nurses and Midwives. Maternity and Child Welfare... 28 Water-supply ... ... 30 Rivers Pollution 31 Drainage and Sewage- disposal 32 Disposal of House-refuse ... 33 Housing and Town-planning 34 Sanitary Inspection ... ... 34 Premises under Supervision. Dairies, Cowsheds, Milkshops 35 Slaughterhouses 35 Common Lodging-houses ... 35 Sale of Foods and Drugs Acts 35 Factories and Workshops ... 36 Midwives and Health-visitors. Midwives5 Work (Table 16) ... 38 Annual Report of Inspector ... 39 Provision of Midwives 39 Payment of Doctors’Fees ... 40 Notification of Birth Acts ... 40 Health-visitors’work (Table 18) 42 Training of Midwives 43 Maternal Deaths (Table 19) ... 44 Summary and Conclusions... 45 Tables 5, 6, 8,9, 10, 17, 20.