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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
Lewisham 1904
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham and report of the Public Analyst for the year 1904
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CONTENTS.
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Accidents, deaths due to 47
Bacteriological Examinations 93
Ballast Fires 107
Birth Rate 17
Bread Act 121
Butter, samples submitted132
Cancer, deaths from 46
Circulatory diseases, deaths from 47
, . Combined drainage 98
Constitutional diseases, deaths
from 47
Customs and Inland Revenue
Act, houses examined under 96
Deaths, ages at 20 & 21
,, effect of season 21
Death rate, all causes 19
,, comparison with
other boroughs 19 & 54
,, in wards and divisions 51
,, zymotic 43
Diarrhoea, epidemic, deaths from 45
Digestive diseases, deaths from 47
Diphtheria, deaths from 44
Disinfection 108
Enteric fever, deaths from 45
Epidemic enteritis 45
Food analysis, samples submitted 129
Homeworkers 109
Houses let in lodgings 108
,, unfit for human habitation 108
Infant mortality 24 to 44
,, ,, causes of 26
,, „ relation of food
supply 35
„ ,, street incidence 25
Infectious disease,
Age period in relation to 65
Case mortality 67
Influence of schools 74
Notification of 65
Communication on return
cases 117
Return cases 69
School closure on account of 75
Street list of 77 to 85
Legal proceedings taken 94
Marriage rate 19
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Measles, deaths from 44
Milk, amendment of law in relation
to supply of 118
,, analysis of 129
,, bacterioscopic examination
of 93
,, certified supplies of 40
,, dirty 130
„ dyed 130
,, commissions40
,, preservatives in 121 & 130
,, samples on delivery 130
,, sour 130
,, Sunday samples 129
,, unclean 120
,, warranty clauses 119
Model farms 38
Nervous diseases, deaths from 46
Patent foods 41
Phthisis, deaths from 45 & 46
,, home visits 114
Population 16
Public Health (London) Act,
conference on 89 to 92
Registration of births, returns of
30 to 32
Respiratory diseases, deaths
from 47
Rivers Ravensbourne and Pool,
pollution of 99 to 107
Sanitary Inspector,woman,work
and visits of 114
Scarlet fever 44
Small Pox, communication on
contacts 125
,, and vagrants 93
Smoke nuisance 107
Trade refuse, communication on 123
Vital statistics, epitome of 5
Water certificates 97
Whooping Cough, deaths from 45
Workshops 108
,, domestic 109
,, insufficient sanitary
conveniences 110
Workrooms 108
„ overcrowding in 110