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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 3
Death Statistics 3
Year 1903—Eecovds 3
Staff in Public Health Department 4
Prevention of Consumption 4
Small-pox 4
Vaccination and Re-vaccination 4
Scarlet fever 4
Ditto Stay of Patients in Hospital 4
Lodging House Bye-laws 5
Common Lodging Houses 5
Food Shops 5
Ice Cream 5
Underground Bakehouses 5
The New Education Act and the Prevention of Physical Deterioration 5
Area, Houses and Population 6
Number of Tenements 6
Estimated Population, 1903 7
Rateable Value, 1903 7
Births and Birth-rates 7
Mortality 7
„ Deaths registered in the Borough 7
Deaths in Public Instutitions etc., within the Borough 8
Deaths of Residents in Public Institutions outside the Borough 8
Corrected deaths and death-rates 9
Infantile Mortality 9
Ditto Deaths under one year per 1,000 births 9
Ditto Principal causes of Deaths of Children under one year 9
Senile Mortality 10
Infectious Diseases 10
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 10
Ditto during the year 1903 and the preceding ten years 11
Notifications of Infectious Diseases in the Borough during 1903 and the preceding ten years 12
Small-pox 13
The great importance and value of successful Vaccination and Re-vaccination 13
The German method of dealing with Small-pox 13
Chicken-pox 14
Scarlet Fever 15
Ditto Secondary Cases 15
Ditto " Return" Cases 16
Ditto Reduction of Stay of Patients in Hospital 16
Diphtheria 18
Ditto Secondary and " Return" Cases 18
Enteric and Continued Fever 18
Ditto Outbreak in December, 1903 19
Ditto and Fried Fish 19
Ditto Infected Blankets from South Africa 19
Measles 20
Whooping Cough 20
Diarrhoea 20
English Cholera 21
Septic or Hospital Sore Throat 21
Plague and Cholera 22
Disinfections 22
Bacteriology 22