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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 6
Increase in the work of the Public Health Department in 1902 5, 6
Area, Houses and Population 7
Age and Sex Distribution of the Population 7
Alien Immigration 7
Number of Tenements 8
Estimated Population 1902 8
Births and Birth-rates 9
Mortality 9
„ Deaths registered in the Borough 9
„ Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 9
„ Deaths of Parishioners in Public Institutions outside the Borough 10
„ Corrected Deaths and Death-rates 10
Infantile Mortality 11
„ Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births 11
„ Principal causes of deaths of children under 1 year of age 11
Senile Mortality 11
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 12
„ during the year 1902 and during the preceding 10 years 12
Notifications of Infectious Diseases in the Borough during 1902 and during the preceding 10
years 13
Small-pox 14
„ Report of outbreak during 1901-02 14
„ Notifications and Deaths during the outbreak 15.
,, Summary of Notifications and Genuine cases 15
,, Cases notified as Small-pox in the Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during 1901 and
1902 and sickness rates for each year 16
,, Deaths from in the Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during 1901 and 1902 and
death-rates for each year after distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions 17
„ Outbreaks in particular houses 17
„ Cases in Common Lodging-houses 20
„ Preventive measures 20
„ Vaccination and Re-vaccination 20
„ Examination of the arms of children attending schools in the parishes of St. Giles and
Bloomsbury 21
„ Conscientious objectors 22
„ Re-vaccination of the Council's employees 22
„ The great importance and value of successful Vaccination and Re-vaccination 23
„ Statistics of large towns 24
„ Early Diagnosis of the Disease 24
„ Prompt removal of the Patient to Hospital 24
,, Disinfection 25
„ Temporary Shelter or House Accommodation for persons during the disinftction of
their rooms 25
,, Visits to infected houses 25
,, Information to Medical Officers of Health, &c., as to contacts 25
Conference on Small-pox 25
Resolutions as to Vaccination adopted by the Incorporated Society of Medical Officers of Health 26
Chicken-pox 28
Scarlet Fever 29
„ Reduction of stay of patients in hospital 29
Diphtheria 29