London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Paddington 1894
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1894
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Births, decline in birth-rate 18
Bronchitis, mortality from 79
Cancer, mortality from 77
Correction-factor, use of 8
Deaths, age-group death-rates 51
„ certification 87
„ in outlying institutions 86
Diphtheria, increased mortality from 66
„ school attendance, effect of 71
Enteric Fever, oysters as cause of 31
House Sanitation, need of Bye-laws regulating 98
Illegitimates, mortality among 84
Infantile Mortality 54
Infectious Disease, measures to limit spread of 102
„ vagrants spreading 104
Inquests 83
Legal Proceedings 107-108
Overcrowding 12
„ and disease, &c. 37
Phthisis, mortality from 77
Pneumonia, „ 81
Population, age-constitution of 9
„ density of 10
Sand-filtration, efficiency of 97
Scarlet Fever and school attendance 28
Seven principal Zymotic Diseases, mortality from 74
Vagrants, spreading disease by 104
Violence, deaths from 81
Zymotic Diseases, mortality from 61