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Finsbury 1910

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Summary 5
Population 5
Births 7
Notification of Births 9
Health Visitation—Infant Births 11
Midwives' Act, 1902 26
Puerperal Fever 27
Deaths and Death Rates 28
Inquests 32
Infantile Mortality 33
Infantile Mortality
(London Boroughs) 36
Infant Deaths (Table) 38
Distribution of Infant Deaths 45
Senile Deaths 47
Cancer 48
Alcoholism 50
Consumption of the Lungs 52
Phthisis:—
Notifications and Deaths
(Table) 53
Deaths and Death Rates,
1901-1910 57
Deaths in Institutions,
1901-1910 58
Death Rates (London
Boroughs, 1910) 59
Street List of Deaths and
Notifications, 1904-1910 59
Preventive Measures 62
Glanders 65
Anthrax 65
Cholera 66
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 66
Erysipelas 67
Small-Pox 67
Measles 67
Hooping Cough 73
Measles and Hooping Cough 73
Enteric Fever 75
Scarlet Fever 77
Diphtheria 80
Diphtheria Antitoxin (London)
Order, 1910 85
Infectious Disease, Deaths and
Notifications 86
Zymotic Death Rate 89
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Disinfection 89
Protection of Food Supply 91
Meat and Food Inspection 92
Unsound Food Prosecutions 97
Food Premises and Street
Markets 99
Slaughterhouses 100
Milk Supply 101
Dairies and Milkshops 101
Milk Samples, 1910 104
Milk Prosecutions, 19 1-1910 106
Milk Analysis in the Metropolitan
Boroughs 106
Ice Cream Shops 107
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 108
Housing 109
Registered Houses 110
Common Lodging House 11l
House-to-House Inspection 1ll
„ „ ,, (Table) 113
Crowded and Overcrowding 115
Customs and Inland Revenue
Acts 116
Verminous Houses 118
Underground Rocmsand Stable
Dwellings 119
Factories and Workshops 120
Complaints 127
Infectious Disease 128
Homework and Homeworkers 130
Bakehouses 134
Canal Boats 137
Elementary Schools 138
Black Smoke 140
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1907 141
The Mortuaries 142
The Shelter 143
Staff of Public Health Department
144
Work of Sanitary Inspectors,
1910 145
Work of Lady Sanitary Inspector
and Health Visitors 146
Infant Consultations and
Weighing Centres 147
Ambulance Service 147
Legal Proceedings 148