London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1908
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. page
Births 12
Deaths 15
Deaths in Public Institutions 19
Infantile Mortality 23
Marriages 14
Notification of Births Act 28
Population 11
Senile Mortality 38
Vital Statistics of the Latchmere Estate 38
Infectious and other Diseases.
Alcoholism 23
Bacteriological Examination 24
Cancer 22
Diarrhoea 111
Diphtheria 68
Enteric Fever 99
Epidemic Cerehro-spinal Fever 104
Erysipelas 104
Measles 106
Notifications, Table of 53
Notifiable Infectious Disease 49
Outbreak of Diphtheria at Wandsworth Infirmary 72
Outbreak of Diphtheria at Royal Masonic Institution 93
Puerperal Fever 103
Scarlet Fever 57
Small Pox 56
Tuberculosis 115
Whooping Cough 109
Zymotic Diseases 43
General Sanitary Administration.
Ambulances 159
Block Dwellings 142
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 152
Common Lodging Houses 141
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 146
Disinfection 148