[Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1924
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Credit: [Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Short statistical summary vi 1’reface vii Administration viii W eather 1 Meteorolojjical results 1-2 Population, births and deaths 3 Population 3 Births 3-4 Deaths 4-21 Local industries 22 Occupations 22 L' nemploynient 22 Amount of poor law relief 22-23 Water supply, food and drugs 24 Water supply 24 Milk supply 24-26 Other fo^s 28-29 Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 29-31 Tuberculosis 32 Administrative arrangements 32 Prevalence of, and mortality from, tuberculosis 32-34 Cases dealt with through the tuberculosis clinic 34-35 Home visiting, disinfection, etc 35-36 Cheshire Joint Sanatorium 37-38 Leasowe hospital 38 Thingwall sanatorium 36-37 Statistical tables 39 V'^enereal diseases 40 Administrative arrangements 40 Treatment carried out at the clinic 43-44 Bacteriological work 41 ■ Treament of Birkenhead patients carried out at other treatment centres 41-42 Issue of salvarsan substitutes 42 *' Propaganda 32 Statistical tables 43-45 Other infectious diseases 46 Infectious diseases which are notifiable 46-48 Vaccination 48 Disinfection 48 Issue of diphtheria antitoxin 48 The infectious diseases hospital 49-53 Home nursing 53 Laboratory 51 Mental denciency 52 Administrative arrangements 52 Cases dealt with under Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 52 Cases dealt with under the Elementary Education Defective and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 and 1914 52 Welfare of the blind 53 Administrative arrangements 53 General facts regarding blind persons in Birkenhead 53 Housing and general sanitation 55 Administrative arrangements 55 Staff 55 Area 55 New houses erected 55 Uninhabited property 55 Administrative action taken in connection with housing and general sanitation 56-60 Factories and workshops 61 Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, and Orders, 1909 62 Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 and 1907 61 Bag Flock Act, 1911 62 t