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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

Battersea 1907

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907

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CONTENTS.
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Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Births 12
Deaths 16
Deaths in Public Institutions 20
Infantile Mortality 24
Marriages 15
Population 11
Senile Mortality 52
Vital Statistics of the Latchmere Estate 53
Infectious and other Diseases.
Alcoholism 116
Bacteriological Examination 117
Cancer 114
Diarrhœa 104
Diphtheria 80
Enteric Fever 83
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Fever 90
Erysipelas 90
Measles 97
Notifications, Table of 66
Notifications, Cost of 64
Puerperal Fever 89
Scarlet Fever 70
Small Pox 69
Tuberculosis 107
Whooping Cough 103
Zymotic Diseases 57
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General Sanitary Administration.
Ambulances 154
Block Dwellings 130
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 147
Common Lodging Houses 130
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 137
Disinfection 140
House-to-house Inspection 123