Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1906 of the Medical Officer of Health
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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 5
Death Statistics 5
Birth-rates 5
Death-rates 6
Infantile Mortality 6
Infectious Diseases Notifications 6
Isolation Hospitals 6
Sanatoria for Consumptive Patients 6
Modified Milk for Infants 7
Registration of Births 7
Warner Street (Italian Colony) Area 7
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 7
House Refuse—Removal of 7
Area, Houses and Population 8
Estimated Population, 1906 8
Rateable Value, 1906 9
Births and Birth-rates 9
Ditto ditto corrected 9
Mortality 10
Deaths Registered 10
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 10
Ditto ditto outside the Borough 11
Corrected deaths and death-rates 12
Infantile Mortality 12
Care and Feeding of Infants 13
The Earlier Registration of Births 14
Modified Milk for Infants 15
Senile Mortality 16
Infectious Diseases 16
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 16
Ditto ditto during 1906 and ten preceding years 17
Notifications of Infectious Diseases ditto ditto 18
Small Pox 20
Scarlet Fever 20
Ditto Secondary Cases 20
Ditto Return Cases 20
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 20
South-Western Fever Hospital—Cubicle Wards 21
Diphtheria 22
Ditto Secondary Cases 22
Ditto Return Cases 22
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 22
Enteric Fever 23
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 23
Measles 23
School Closure 24
Exclusion from School—Regulations 24
Whooping Cough 25
Diarrhœa 25
Phthisis or Consumption 26
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification 26
Ditto ditto Royal Commission on Tuberculosis 27
Ditto ditto Sanatoria 27
Influenza 28
An Outbreak simulating Influenza 28