Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1904
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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VITAL STATISTICS-
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION-
Population 3
Offensive Trades 26
Births 4
Offensive Matter 26
Marriages 4
Milk Premises 26
Deaths 5
Cowsheds 26
Infantile Mortality 7
Slaughterhouses 26
Senile Mortality 9
Ice Cream Premises 26
Death Certification 9
Houses Let in Lodgings 26
Zymotic Diseases 9
Sec. 48 Public Health (London) Act,
1891 29
Small-pox 10
Measles 10
Disinfection 29
Whooping Cough 10
Food Inspection 29
Typhus Fever 10
Food Premises 30
Enteric Fever 10
Unsound Food Seizures 30
Simple Continued Fever 10
Food Destroyed 30
Diarrhœa 10
Bacteriological Laboratory 30
Tubercular Diseases 11
Overcrowding 31
Phthisis 11
Food and Drugs 32
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of Liver 12
Housing of Working Classes 32
Cancer and Malignant Disease 12
Back-to-back Houses 36
Heart Disease 12
House Refuse 37
Suicides 13
Smoke Nuisances 38
Accidents 13
Other Violent Deaths 13
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 38
Public Health Legislation 38
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS—
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASE—
HomeWork 41
Bakehouses 41
Small-pox 13
Typhus Fever 14
APPENDIX—TABLES—
Diphtheria 14
Scarlet Fever 15
Local Government Board Tables 43-45
Meteorology 46
Enteric Fever 16
Continued Fever 18
Marriages 46
Puerperal Fever 18
Proceedings during Year 47
Factories and Workshops 46-48
Measles 18
Chicken-pox 22
Sanitary Work 49
Notification of Phthisis 22
Food and Drugs 50-51
List of Bakehouses 52
Anthrax 24
Children excluded from School 25
Extended Table of Deaths 53