Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health [to] the Corporation of the City of Capetown.

  • Cape Town (South Africa). City Health Department.
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health [to] the Corporation of the City of Capetown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Leading statistics Section I.—Natural and social conditions Physical geography Area Climate Social and economic conditions Section II.—Vital statistics Population Births Deaths Section III.—Maternal and child welfare. A. Statistical Infant mortality Maternal mortality Section III.—Maternal and child welfare. B. Administrative Notification of births Supervision of midwifery Nursing and maternity homes Puerperal fever The work of the health visitors Social welfare investigator Maternal and child welfare centres Infant consultations South African Mothercraft Training Centre . . Pre-natal clinics Dental clinics Provision of dinners and milk meals . . Breathing and remedial exercise classes School clinics Day nurseries Nursery schools Ophthalmia neonatorum and gonorrhoeal ophthalmia Section IV.—Infectious and other diseases Enteric or typhoid fever Diphtheria Diphtheria immunization Scarlet fever Erysipelas . . Cerebrospinal fever Acute poliomyelitis Infective encephalitis Influenza and pneumonia Typhus fever Leprosy Anthrax Trachoma Lead poisoning Measles and whooping cough Diarrhoeal diseases Cancer City Hospitals City Hospital for Infectious Disease, Portswood Road City Isolation Hospital, Rentzkie’s Farm Langa Native Hospital . . Cleansing station Ambulance and disinfecting station Section V.—Tuberculosis Anti-tuberculosis clinics Nelspoort Sanatorium Care Committee for Tuberculosis Patients Section VI.—Venereal diseases Venereal disease clinics Section VII.—Sanitary administration Health inspectors Stable premises Anti-rodent operations Mosquitoes . . Camping Food, Drugs and Disinfectants Act Sale of milk and ice cream Tea shops, cafes, restaurants and eating-houses Registered trades Trade licences Inspection of meat and other foodstuffs Cases before the Magistrate PAGE 7 7 8 8 8 9 10 10 11 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 18 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 31 31 31 32 32 32 33 33 33 33 34 34 35 35 36 36 40 40 44 44 45 47 53 54 60 60 62 63 64 64 65 66 68 68 68 69 71