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Shoreditch 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Milk premises, cowsheds, etc., on register 35
Mortuary 25
Notification.of Births Act 3
Offensive business 36
Ophthalmia neonatorum 22
Outworkers 38
Polio-myelitis 23
Population 1
Puerperal fever 18
Rag Flock Act, 1911 36
Return cases 12
Sanitary work 25
Scarlet fever 13
Scarlet fever, return cases of 12
Schools, exclusions of children for infectious disease 24
Shelter 25
Sickness amongst the poor 9
Slaughter-houses 35
Small-pox 13
Smoke nuisance 28
Staff 43
Street markets and food 40
Tuberculosis 20
Typhus fever 20
Vaccination 13
Verminous houses 28
Violence, mortality from 7
Water supply 25
Whooping cough 20
Workshops on register 30
Zymotic diseases, deaths from 11
Zymotic death rate 11
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables
For whole district during 1915 and previous years (Table I.) 47
Cases of Infectious disease notified during 1915 (Table II.) 48
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1915 (Tables III. and V.) 49, 52 to 59
Infantile mortality during 1915 (Table IV.) 50
Notes to Table III. 51
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birch and death rates in 1915 (Table VI.) 60
Cases treated by District Medical Officer in 1915 (Table VII.) 61
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Aot, 1891 (Table VIII.) 62
Summary of Tuberculosis Certificates received (Table IX.) 63
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) 64 to 67
Report on tuberculosis dispensary 68 to 71
Report of Health Visitors 72 to 79