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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
Battersea 1899
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899
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Coroner's Inquests, &-c. 38
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Parish Poor 40
Notifiable Infectious Disease
Weekly Summaries 42
Sickness and Mortality Table 46
L. G. B. Table 48
Table of Infectious Disease in Sanitary Districts 50
Smallpox 49
Cholera 51
Diphtheria 51
Scarlet Fever 57
Typhus Fever 59
Enteric Fever 59
Puerperal Fever 61
Erysipelas 62
Tuberculosis
Mortality, Battersea 62
„ Metropolitan Sanitary Districts 63
Phthisis Mortality, 1851 to 1895 63
Causes and Preventive Measures 64
Recommendations of Royal Commission (1896) on
Tuberculosis 66
Distribution of Circulars containing Advice 69
Notification of Phthisis 70
Advantages 71
Difficulties 71
Systems adopted at:—
(1) New York 72
(2) Manchester 73
(2) Brighton 74
Action taken at Blackburn 76
„ „ Battersea 77
Bacteriological examination of Milk 78