London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Lewisham 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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TABLES
TABLE NO. SUBJECT PAGE
1 Social class — stillbirths and infant mortality 7
2 Comparative statistics 12
3 General summary of vital statistics in last ten years 12
4 Causes of death, by age groups 13
5 Deaths under one year of age 14
6 Social class mortality 15
7 Social class infant mortality 15
8 General statistics from 1901 16-17
9 Disinfecting station 18
10 Public mortuary 21
11 Rodent control 22
12 Treatment of sewers for rats 22
13 Water supply samples—chemical 24
14 Water supply samples—bacteriological 24
15 Sanitary inspection 30
16 Special sanitary circumstances 31
17 Nuisances remedied 32
18 Factories and workshops—inspections 33
19 Factories and workshops—defects 33
20 Housing 35
21 Demolition orders 36
22 Closing orders 36
23 Civil building licences 39
24 Various housing statistics 40
25 Analysis of milk 43
26 Heat-treated milk 43
27 Icecream—grading 43
28 Icecream—fat content 44
29 Food and Drugs Act—samples analysed 45
30 Food and Drugs Act—adulterated samples 49
31 Other samples 50
32 Food poisoning 50
33 Meat inspection 52
34 Principal notifiable diseases 53
35 Notifications of infectious diseases by age and sex 54
36 Analysis of certain diseases into divisional areas 54
37 Poliomyelitis in 1947 and 1949 56
38 Infectious disease visiting 56
39 Tuberculosis notifications and deaths 57
40 Age distribution of tuberculosis cases 57
41 Analysis of new cases of tuberculosis into divisional areas 58
42 Cases of tuberculosis not formally notified 58
43 Sources of information of cases in table 42 59
44 Revision of tuberculosis register 59
45 Summary of statistics as to tuberculosis for the last ten years 59
46 Tuberculosis—environmental investigations 60
47 Immunisation against infectious disease 62
CHARTS
Poliomyelitis in 1947 and 1949 55
MAP
Divisional areas of the borough 8-9