1. In none of the years in question did the summer weather favor an excess of diarrhœal mortality. With this factor, however, eliminated the infant mortality each year was lower than in previous years.
2. Although so many husbands were away from home, in a large proportion of cases the wife, in virtue of her separation allowance, was financially in a more favorable position than when she was dependent on her husband’s wages or such portion of it as he allowed her for the support of the household.
3. In addition, every soldier became an insured person, and his wife was therefore entitled to the Maternity Benefit of 30 shillings on the birth of a child, and an additional 30 shillings if she was herself an employed person.
4. There can be no reasonable doubt that the restrictions on the consumption of alcoholic drinks and the limitation of hours for opening public houses were a factor in improving domestic welfare.
But attaching full value to these and other similar factors which undoubtedly were at work, chief place must, I think, be given to the awakening of the public conscience on the subject, and to the concentration on the mother and her child which had been urged in season and which now became a fact. An indication of the public mind is given by the advice issued by the Local Government Board in August, 1918, which is quoted on page [248].
FOOTNOTES:
[18] Extracted from addresses given at Conferences held by the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, Washington.
INDEX
- Abbott, J., [2]
- Abbott, S. W., [2]
- Alcoholic drinks, [123], [149], [187]
- Anaesthetics, [77]
- Ante-natal work, [261]
- Bacteriological diagnosis, [85]
- Banks, N. P., [2]
- Biggs, H., [77]
- Bowditch, [2]
- Budd, Wm., [15]
- Burns, John, [44]
- Burton, R., [71]
- Care Committees, [237]
- Causation, [147]
- Causation, specific, [20]
- Cerebro-spinal fever, [23], [76], [126]
- Chadwick, [2], [3], [11], [12], [25], [52], [54]
- Chalmers, [70]
- Chapman, [221], [237]
- Character and health, [173]
- Childbearing, care of, [137], [254]
- Child mortality, causes of, [248]
- Child welfare work, [240]
- Cholera, [12]
- Colonies for consumptives, [235]
- Consumption, see Tuberculosis.
- Contacts in tuberculosis, [212]
- Creches, [263]
- Decadence, [121]
- Democracy and public health, [47]
- Dental assistance, [262]
- Destitution (see also Poor Law), [31], [65], [87]
- Deterrence, principle of, [29]
- Diarrhœal diseases, [20], [241]
- Dirt and disease, [11]
- Dispensaries for tuberculosis, [216]
- ” general, [218]
- Domiciliary treatment, [35]
- Education authorities and public health, [56], [58], [86]
- Educational propaganda, [130], [168]
- ” work of sanatoria, [233]
- Enteric fever, see Typhoid.
- Epidemiology, present limitations of, [22], [81]
- Eugenics and public health, [44]
- Expectation of life, [20], [74], [192]
- Factory hygiene and legislation, [8], [26]
- Farr, Wm., [2], [25]
- Fulton, J. S., [24]
- Gerhard, [15]
- Goodnow, [60], [63]
- Grants in aid, [56], [135], [265]
- Historical development of public health, [42]
- Holmes, O. Wendell, [16]
- Hospitals, see Institutional treatment.
- ” as housing auxiliaries, [38], [77], [79], [98]
- ” and private practice, [146]
- Housing, [38], [79]
- ” and tuberculosis, [203]
- Huddersfield, [246]
- Ideals of public work, [4]
- Ignorance and sickness, [168]
- Immunity to tuberculosis, [196]
- Industrial colonies, [235]
- Industry and public health, [50], [161]
- Infant consultations, [243]
- Infant mortality, [144], [250]
- Infant mortality and poverty, [153], [185]
- Infants, care of, [30]
- Influenza, [23], [76], [127]
- Inspectors of factories, [51]
- Institutional treatment, [37], [79], [98]
- Insurance and public health, [33], [59], [66], [88], [92], [95], [103]
- Intemperance, [149]
- Jefferson, President, [6]
- Jenner, Wm., [15]
- Kay, [2], [11]
- Koch, Robert, [192]
- ” and segregation in tuberculosis, [201]
- Laissez faire policy, [6]
- Lay workers, utilisation of, [3]
- Loans for public health work, [14]
- Local Government Board, [53], [58], [77]
- Lowe, Robert, [28]
- Mackenzie, L., [57]
- Maclean, D., [31]
- Malaria, [147]
- Malthus, [6], [162]
- Malthusian hypothesis, [164]
- Massachusetts, [2], [4]
- Maternity benefit, [34], [95], [111], [134]
- Measles, [20], [126]
- Measurement of results in life saving, [19]
- Medical benefit, [34], [106], [110]
- Medical practice and public health, [27], [83]
- Medical officers of health, [63]
- Midwives Act, [255]
- Midwifery nursing, [260]
- Milk depots, [243]
- Mill, James, [6]
- Ministry of Health, [49]
- Mother and child, [132], [180]
- Murchison, Chas., [15], [17]
- National Health Insurance Act, [33], [59], [88], [104]
- National medical service, [32], [36]
- New England, [1]
- Notification of tuberculosis, [206]
- ” of births, [245]
- Nursing, training of, [122]
- ” public health work of, [126]
- Oastler, [177]
- Overcrowding, [7], [199]
- Over-population, [166]
- Owen, [177]
- Panel doctors, [215]
- Pasteur, [21]
- Percival, [177]
- Pettenkofer, Von, [13]
- Philanthropy and public health, [9], [37]
- Physical defects, [81]
- Pneumonia, [76]
- Poliomyelitis, [23], [76]
- Political pull, [102], [175]
- Poor law and public health, [27], [29], [31], [46], [49]
- Population problem, [163]
- Poverty, causes of, [31], [182]
- ” control of, [46], [114]
- ” tests, [139]
- ” and sickness, [148], [162], [167], [184], [189]
- Preventive medicine, [99]
- Progress of public health, [1]
- Public health nurses, [128], [154]
- Racial immunity, [196]
- Red Cross workers, [127], [132], [143]
- Registrar-General’s returns, [18], [25]
- Relief v. prevention, [109], [190]
- Relief v. prevention, [48]
- Research, [24], [35]
- Resistance v. infection, [195]
- Respiratory diseases, [23], [125]
- Rumsey, [54]
- Rural conditions, [161]
- Sanatorium benefit, [34], [94], [111], [129], [214], [222]
- Sanatorium treatment, [228]
- Sanitation and infant mortality, [242]
- Scarlet fever, [20]
- Schools for mothers, [244]
- School medical inspection, [30], [57], [252]
- Scope of public health work, [44]
- Sedgwick, [16]
- Segregation of feeble-minded, [44]
- ” in tuberculosis, [200]
- Sex teaching, [151]
- Shaftesbury, [177]
- Shattuck, L., [2], [3]
- Shop hygiene, [9]
- Sickness and pauperism, [67], [68]
- Sickness insurance, [10], [32], [65], [67], [87], [116]
- Sickness registration, [26]
- Simon, Jno., [2], [4], [5], [9], [12], [13], [22], [25], [28], [55]
- Smallpox, [21]
- Smith, Adam, [6]
- Smith, Southwood, [2], [9], [11], [12]
- Smith, Theobald, [2]
- Snow, Jno., [13]
- Socialization of medicine, [82], [102], [115]
- State treatment of disease, [112], [137]
- Statistical studies, influence of, [252]
- Still-births, [137]
- Syphilis, [137]
- Sykes, J. F. J., [244]
- Town living, influence on health, [43]
- Tuberculosis, [20], [23], [34], [76], [78], [129], [192]
- Tuberculosis and hospital treatment, [198]
- ” and overcrowding, [199]
- ” and housing, [203]
- ” notification of, [206]
- Typhoid fever, [15]
- Typhus fever, [17], [20]
- Unqualified practice, [31]
- Urbanization, [7], [159]
- Venereal diseases, [30], [85], [131], [150]
- Victoria, Queen, [10]
- Vital statistics, importance of, [24]
- Voluntary agencies, [141]
- Walcott, [2]
- War, [81], [120], [158], [179]
- Water supplies and health, [16]
- Wells, [159]
- Whooping cough, [20]
- Women, work of, [122]
- ” position of, [184]