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Bermondsey 1911

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1911

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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VITAL STATISTICS—
Population 4
Births 5
Marriages 5
Deaths 5
Infantile Mortality 8
Zymotic Diseases 8
Senile Mortality 9
Death Certification 9
Small-pox 9
Measles 9
Diarrhœa 9
Whooping Cough 9
Typhus Fever 9
Enteric Fever 9
Other Allied Diseases 9
Tubercular Diseases 9
Phthisis 10
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of
Liver 10
Cancer and Malignant Disease 10
Heart Diseases 10
Suicides 10
Accidents 10
Other Violent Deaths 10
NOTIFICATION OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASE—
Small-pox 11
Typhus Fever 11
Diphtheria 11
Scarlet Fever 12
Measles 12
Enteric Fever 12
Puerperal Fever 12
Membranous Croup 12
Phthisis 13
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 16
Anthrax 17
Consultations 17
Plague 17
Children excluded from School 18
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION—
Offensive Matter 20
Offensive Trades 20
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SANITARY ADMINISTRATION—continued.
Unsound Food 20
Food Places 21
Unsound Food Seizures 21
Milk Premises 21
Cowsheds 21
Food Examined 21
Unsound Food and Foreign
Meat Regulations 22
Food Inspectors' Work 25
Food and Drugs 25
Slaughterhouses 26
Ice Cream Premises 26
Hairdressers and Barbers 26
Inspections 26
Housing of the Working Classes
Acts 26
Housing, Town Planning, &c.,
Act, 1909 27
Bacteriological Laboratory 27
Houses Let in Lodgings 27
Sec. 48 Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 28
Disinfection 29
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 29
Smoke Nuisances 29
House Refuse 29
Overcrowding 29
Health Visitor's Work 33
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS—
Outworkers 33
APPENDIX—TABLES—
Local Government Board Tables 36-40
Population, &c., of Wards 41
Meteorology 41
Marriages 41
Proceedings during Year 42
Factories and Workshops 43-45
Sanitary Work 46
Food and Drugs 47 - 49
List of Bakehouses 50
Phthisis Sanatorium and Hos-
pital Accommodation 51
Extended Table of Deaths 52