“…According to Sir Napier Burnett,* the sum to be paid in 1920 to the hospitals of England and Wales, excluding London, was £570,325, which was made up as follows:— War Office and Admiralty £11,347 Ministry of Pensions 290,183 Infant Welfare and Maternity Work ... 18,522 Venereal Diseases ......................... .........................116,938 Tuberculosis 16,844 Education Authorities .................... ...........15,224 National Health Insurance Act 38,939 Details not given .......................... 62,328 £570,325 The number of hospitals receiving payments of this nature was 572, and the sums received amounted to 14.36 per cent. of their ordinary income. …”

“…In Finsbury* the death rate per 1,000 of infants has been found to vary from 41 in well-to-do districts to 375 in the slums. Venereal disease is widely prevalent, and fills hospitals and asylums with cases of disease which might be almost wholly prevented. * Report on the Public Health of Finsbury, 1906, p. 26. 36/H24/6…”

“…Hitherto she has specialised chiefly in mothercraft, though some health visitors have also visited the homes of sufferers from tuberculosis, mental illness and venereal disease. But under the new Service she is the friend and adviser of the whole family. …”

“…There should be special departments for all classes of cases which it is deemed best to deal with separately, such as school children, infants, mothers, tuberculosis and venereal diseases. 20. Special maternity wards or hospitals should be available for all patients whose home conditions render confinement unusually dangerous, or who require operative treatment of a major character. 21. …”

“…National Council for Combating Venereal Disease. National Council of Women — Child Welfare Travelling Exhibit. …”

“…At each hospital, whether county or local, there should be special departments for all classes of cases which it is deemed best to deal with separately, such as school children, infants, mothers, tuberculosis and venereal diseases. Special maternity wards or hospitals should be available for all patients, and especially for those whose home conditions are unsuitable or render confinement unusually dangerous, or who require operative treatment of a major character. …”

“…Specialist services in tuberculosis, venereal disease, infectious disease and, in a number of areas, in obstetrics and in pathology (the last service varying from one limited to the examination of swabs and sputa to a fairly full service), are already provided by local authorities. …”

“…Many local authorities are encouraging suppliers to supply and consumers to demand clean foods. [Pp. 8 and 54] VENEREAL DISEASES The steep fall in the clinic figures for early syphilis in 1947 continued in 1948, but was less marked in some large seaports and there still seem to be considerable reservoirs of infection in a few great inland cities. …”

“…The lack of these is rendering the school service, the maternity and child welfare service, the tuberculosis service, and the venereal disease service less efficient than they might otherwise be : the possession of beds, on the other hand, has rendered the infectious disease service in every way useful and beneficial to the community. …”

“…Clinics The majority of clinics are administered by Local Authorities for purposes of Ante Natal Maternity Work, Infant Welfare, Venereal Diseases, Tuberculosis Examinations etc. They perform invaluable medical work, both ameliorative and preventative, which are seldom undertaken by the voluntary institutions. …”

“…School clinics, when not held at the schools themselves, maternity and child welfare centres, and dispensaries for the prevention of venereal diseases, should be housed within the health centre, and all doctors connected with the service should have their consulting rooms at this and other convenient centres, instead of at their own houses. …”

“…1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations Page Nits............... 19 Noise and sleeplessness 3 Orange juice, allowance of........ 12 —vitamins, substitutes for............ 11 Oxygen, functions of 9, 10 Parents and children's health.... 16,17 Parsley, food value of 12 Pasteurised milk .... 20 Peas, food value of.. 10 Potatoes, food value of........ 10, 11, 12 —to cook .......... 12 Protective foods..... 8 Protein, need for .... 10 Public Health Services............21, 22 Radishes, food value of..............................12 Rationing and balanced diet................8 Raw foods, value of..12 Recreation....................6-7 Regularity, importance of......................2-4 Respiration ................9 Rest ............................2, 7 Rickets ........3,8,11 Routine ....................2 Rowing exercise .... 7 Salads, food value of 2 Salmon, food value of 10 Salts in vegetables... 12 Scabies............ 19 Scarlet fever........ 20 School Nurse........ 19 Scurvy............ 8,11 Seawater bathing.... 6 Sex problems......14, 15 Shoes for women.... 7 Sleep, hours required 3, 4 —regularity in...... 2-4 Sleeplessness, remedies for.............. 3-4 Slimming tablets, danger of........ 8 Smoking, excess .... 13 Sneezing, and germs.. 21 Sore throat, a cause of 20 Spinach, food value of 10 Spirits, effects of.... 13 Starch foods, need for 9 Stomach disorders, causes of ........ 2-3 Suet, food value of..10 Sugar, food value of.. 9 Sunbathing precautions............. 5, 6 Sunburn, to avoid .. 6 Sunshine, value of.. 5 "Sunshine" vitamins 11 Sunstroke, to avoid.. 6 Sweat, function of ... 5 Swede turnip, food value of.......... 11 Sweets, food value of 8 Swimming.......... 6, 7 Tea ..............3,13 teeth, foods for....10 Temperature, fluctuations of................5 —healthy....................5 —ideal room................5 —normal ....................5 Thinness ....................8 Thyroid tablets............8 Tobacco........................13 Tomatoes, food value of .......................12 Tuberculosis, a cause of.............. 8,20 Typhoid fever.... 20, 21 Typhus........................18 Ultra-violet rays... 5 Underfeeding....... 8 Undulant fever, a cause of..........20 Vaccination ......21-22 Vegetable water, to use.............. 12 Vegetables, raw, value of............... 12 —to cook .......... 12 Venereal disease.....14-15 -causes of......14-15 -ciinics for...... 15 -in parents.... 14 -pregnancy and.. 15 -prevention of.. 14-15 -treatment of... 15 Ventilation ........ 3-5 —black-out and .... 4 Vitamin A.......... 11 Vitamin B........10, 11 Vitamin C.......... 10 Vitamin D..........5,11 Vitamin E.......... 11 Vitamin K.......... 11 Vitamins in vegetables 11, 12 Walking.......... 7 War effort, and illness 20 War work and health 3, 6 Water, importance of 3,13 —purification of.... 22 Watercress, food value of..............10,12 Welfare Centres.... 11, 22 Wheatmeal bread.... 12 Whooping cough.. 20,22 Women, shoes for .... 7 —thinness in........ 8 —Health Services for 22 Work, regularity in.. 2 Worry, causes of .... 16 —sleeplessness and .. 3 To be purchased from His Majesty's Stationery Office at : York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120 George Street, Edinburgh, 2; 39/41 King Street, Manchester, 2; 1 St. …”

“…Though the Ministry of Health was regarded as the main administrative health centre nationally, with supervision of and sometimes control over, social medical services, such as public health, general sanitation, water supply, housing, local authority hospitals, tuberculosis, maternity and child welfare, cancer, venereal disease, and with more personal individual services, such as are covered by National Health Insurance administration, there were obviously many gaps in the sphere of a co-ordinated National Health Service. …”

“…Though the Ministry of Health was regarded as the main administrative health centre nationally, with supervision of and sometimes control over, social medical services, such as public health, general sanitation, water supply, housing, local authority hospitals, tuberculosis, maternity and child welfare, cancer, venereal disease, and with more personal individual services, such as are covered by National Health Insurance administration, there were obviously many gaps in the sphere of a co-ordinated National Health Service. …”

“…Such an allegation is interesting, when it is realised that the present Local Authorities are already soley [solely] responsible for such treatment as Infectious Diseases Hospitals; Tuberculosis treatment; Venereal Diseases treatment; Cancer treatment; Mental Health Services; Maternity and Child Welfare; Health of the School Children; Homes for Aged and Infirm, and Chronic Sick Institutions. …”

“…To some extent, the gap is narrowed by the public provision of free medical services, such as treatment for tuberculosis and for venereal disease, free of charge where necessary; it is narrowed also by the Poor Law medical service, which makes some provision for the treatment of patients who are technically paupers. …”

“…., tuberculosis and cancer clinics), but it is proposed to leave the remainder of the clinic services (including the maternity and child welfare, ante-natal, venereal disease, and scabies clinics) where they are now, in the hands of the major local health authorities. 57. …”

“…WILSON, M.B., C.M. Venereal Disease H. WANSEY BAYLEY, M.C., M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. …”

“…The associated services will normally include tuberculosis, venereal disease, mental and cancer services. Child welfare will go with education, whether it be to county and county borough councils, or lesser authorities. 40. …”

“…" That is the record of only one disease, it takes no account of the terrible toll traceable to venereal troubles, or of the deaths due to overcrowding and bad sanitation. …”