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THE ninth Annual Report of the Ministry of Health, 1927–28,1 is a mine of information on various aspects of the public health. It is divided into five sections, one of which comprises the report of the Welsh Board of Health, and a series of appendices. The five main divisions deal with the public health, local government and finance, administration of the poor law, and National Health Insurance and Contributory Pensions. Among the general subjects in the section on public health, reference is made to the coming into force of the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1925, and the passage of a Bill through Parliament to amend the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, to allow of the treatment of young persons suffering from the after effects of encephalitis lethargica: mental defectiveness is now defined as a condition of incomplete development of mind existing before the age of eighteen years, whether inherent or caused by disease or injury. Work has also been commenced to investigate the causes of maternal mortality and puerperal fever: the maternal mortality rate has been almost stationary in Great Britain for the last twenty years, indicating that special efforts must be made to reduce it.
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"Ninth Annual Report of the Ministry of Health, 1927–28". Pp. 292 + xviii. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1928).
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The Public Health. Nature 122, 668–669 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122668b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122668b0