A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related ...

1929 Cont
1929 cont care; and the development of a coordinated mental health service in each area
with a specialist mental health officer on the staff of each local health authority. See 1957.
Publication of the Report of the Departmental Committee on the Training and
Employment of Midwives which had been appointed in 1928 to examine the continuing high
maternal mortality rate and the difficulties in recruiting midwives. Its recommendations were
embodied in the 1936 Act.
College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (later Royal) established.
National Smoke Abatement Society formed by the amalgamation of the London (1899)
and Provincial (1909) Societies; became the National Society for Clean Air in 1958.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine opened (see 1921), with WW
Jameson (see 1920) as professor of public health, WWC Topley professor of bacteriology and
immunology, M Greenwood professor of epidemiology, ME Delafield professor of chemistry
as applied to hygiene, and A Balfour professor of tropical medicine and hygiene.
First edition of "The Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity", by WWC Topley
(1886-1944) and GS (later Sir Graham) Wilson (1895-1987), published.
Financial crash on Wall Street, New York, in October led to a general industrial and
trade depression.