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
Finsbury 1910
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910
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The figures for Bethnal Green, Camberwell, and Hackney have
been obtained from the Registrar-General's returns, the others
from the various medical officers.
The measures adopted in the Borough in recent years bearing
more directly on infantile mortality are here succinctly summarised:—
1903.—No Milk Depot. No Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
Infant Mortality, 159.
1904.—Milk Depot established, November 23. One Lady
Sanitary Inspector.
Infant Mortality, 168.
1905.—Milk Depot. Two Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
Infant Mortality, 148.
1906.—Milk Depot. Two Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
Infant Mortality, 157.
1907.—Milk Depot. Two Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
Infant Mortality, 127
1908.—Milk Depot. Two Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
Infant Mortality, 137.
1909.—Milk Depot closed, March 3. One Lady Sanitary
Inspector (one Lady Sanitary Inspector resigned February,
1909). Two Lady Health Visitors appointed
April, 1909.
Infant Mortality, 128.
1910.—No Milk Depot. One Lady Sanitary Inspector. Two
Lady Health Visitors.
Infant Mortality, 121.