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 1905
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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vITAL STATISTICS-
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION—
Population 3
Offensive Matter 26
Offensive Trades 27
Births 3
Marriages 4
Milk Premises 27
Cowsheds 27
Deaths 5
Slaughterhouses 27
Infantile Mortality 6
Senile Mortality 7
Ice Cream Premises 27
Sec. 48 Public Health (London) Act,
1891 27
Death Certification 7
Zymotic Diseases 7
Houses Let in Lodgings 27
Small-pox 8
Disinfection 29
Measles 8
Food Inspection 29
Whooping Cough 8
Food Premises 29
Typhus Fever 8
Unsound Food Seizures 29
Enteric Fever 8
Food Destroyed 30
Simple Continued Fever 8
Coffee Berries 30
Diarrhœa 8
Bacteriological Laboratory 31
Tubercular Diseases 9
Overcrowding 32
Phthisis 9
Hairdressers and Barbers 34
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of Liver 10
Food and Drugs 36
Cancer and Malignant Disease 10
Smoke Nuisances 37
Heart Diseases 10
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 37
Suicides 10
House Refuse 37
Accidents 11
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 87
Other Violent Deaths 11
Alien Immigration 39
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASE—
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS—
Lead Poisoning 39
Small-pox 11
Outworkers 39
Typhus Fever 11
Female Sanitary Inspector 40
Diphtheria 11
Bakehouses 40
Scarlet Fever 12
APPENDIX—TABLES—
Enteric Fever 13
Local Government Board Tables 42-45
Continued Fever 13
Population, etc., of Wards 46
Puerperal Fever 14
Meteorology 46
Measles 14
Marriages 46
Insanitary Area 48-49
Chicken-pox 15
Proceedings during Year 49
Membranous Croup 15
Factories and Workshops 50-51
Notification of Phthisis 15
Sanitary Work 52
Anthrax 17
Food and Drugs 53-54
School Closure 17
List of Bakehouses 55
Children excluded from School 19
Extended Table of Deaths 56