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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
Chelsea 1897
Annual report for 1897 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
SEC. I.-STATISTICAL:— page.
Population of Chelsea 3
Births and Birth-rate 3
Deaths and Death-rate 3
Table of Deaths (Local Government Board Form) 8
Table of New Cases of Infectious Sickness (do.) 9
SEC. II. :—
Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox 10
Scarlet Fever 10
Diphtheria 10
Enteric Fever 11
The Case Mortality 12
Removal of Patients to Hospital 12
Prevalence of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever in the Parishes of
West London from 1890 to 1897 12
The Water Supply of Chelsea 15
Special Reports 15
SEC. III.:—
Work of the Public Health Department—
Summary of Nuisances and other matters reported on 17
Magisterial proceedings during 1897 19
List of Bake-houses, Cow-houses, and Slaughter-houses 22