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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1910
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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SYNOPSIS—continued.
Table "P" Condition of Premises 48
Scarlet Fever 48
Diphtheria 49
Gratuitous supply of Anti-Toxin 50
Epidemic of Diphtheria at Children's Home 51
Dr. Tunstall's Report 53
Enteric Fever 57
Dr. Collingridge on Contaminated Shell Fish 60
Typhoid Carriers 65
Whooping Cough 66
Diarrhœa 67
Measles 67
Hospital Beds for Measles and Whooping Cough 68
Diseases of Parturition 69
Erysipelas 70
Cerebro-spinal-meningitis 70
Tetanus 70
Anthrax 71
Tuberculosis 71
Cancer 75
Inquests 76
Suicides 76
Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909 76
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 to 1903 81
APPENDIX.
Local Government Board Order, 15th August, 1910, re
Provision, etc., of Diphtheria Anti-Toxin 82
Tables—I.—Vital Statistics of Whole District 85
II.—Vital Statistics of separate Localities in 1910
and previous years 86
III.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified 87
IV.—Causes of, and Ages at Death 88
V, V (a) and V (b).—Infantile Mortality 89-91
VI.—Number of Deaths from the seven principal
Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1900 to
1909 and in the year 1910 92
Street List 95
Administration of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 93
Home Workers 94