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

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Lewisham 1950

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

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TABLES
TABLE NO. SUBJECT PAGE
1 Comparative statistics 10
2 General summary of vital statistics in last ten years 10
3 Causes of death by age groups 11
4 Deaths under one year of age 12
5 Social class mortality 14
6 Causes of death by social class 15
7 Grouped causes of death by social class 16
8 Births, infant deaths, etc. by social class 17
9 Certain infant mortality figures by social class 18
10 Notified and premature births 19
11 General statistics from 1901 20—21
12 Disinfecting station 22
13 Public mortuary 25
14 Rodent control 26
15 Rodent control — treatment of rivers 27
16 Prevalence of rats and mice 29
17 Water supply samples — chemical 32
18 Water supply samples — bacteriological 32
19 Weather conditions in 1950 39
20 Sanitary inspection 40
21 Special sanitary circumstances 42
22 Summary of notices 43
23 Nuisances remedied 43
24 Factories and workshops — inspections 45
25 Factories and workshops — defects 45
26 Applications for rehousing 48
27 Demolition orders 50
28 Closing orders 50
29 Civil building licences 53
30 Various housing statistics 54
31 Analysis of milk 55
32 Heat-treated milk 56
33 Icecream — grading 56
34 Icecream — fat content 57
35 Food and Drugs Act — samples analysed 58
36 Food and Drugs Act — adulterated samples 60
37 Other samples 61
38 Meat inspection 63
39 Principal notifiable diseases 65
40 Notifications of infectious diseases by age and sex 66
41 Analysis of certain diseases into divisional areas 67
42 Infectious disease visiting 68
43 Tuberculosis notifications and deaths 68
44 Age distribution of tuberculosis cases 69
45 Analysis of new cases of tuberculosis into divisional areas 69
46 Cases of tuberculosis not formally notified 70
47 Sources of information of cases in table 46 70
48 Revision of tuberculosis register 71
49 Summary of statistics as to tuberculosis for the last ten years 71
50 Tuberculosis — environmental investigations 72
51 Tuberculosis cases visited in 1950 73
52 Immunisation against infectious disease 75
CHARTS
Scarlet fever in parliamentary divisions 66
Measles — weekly incidence 67
Tuberculosis — environmental investigations 73