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
Bethnal Green 1909
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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SYNOPSIS—continued.
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Scarlet Fever 45
Diphtheria 46
Enteric Fever 47
Small Pox 48
Whooping Cough 48
Diarrhœal Diseases 48
Measles 49
Chicken Pox 49
Diseases of Parturition 49
Erysipelas 50
Tuberculosis 50
Notification of Tuberculosis 51
Dr. Taunton's Report on Notification of Tuberculosis 54
Cancer 60
Inquests 61
Suicides 61
Homicide 61
Deaths after the adminstration of Anaesthetics 62
Uncertified deaths 62
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 to 1903 62
Dr. Taunton's report on The Housing and Town
Planning Act, 1909 63
Health Visitors 69
Notification of Births' Act, 1907. 69
Sanitary Staff 69
Home Office enquiry re Industrial employment of women
before and after child birth 71
Tables—I.—Vital Statistics of Whole District 80
II.—Vital Statistics of separate Localities in
1969 and previous years 81
III.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified 82
IV.—Causes of, and Ages at Death 83
V. V(a), and V(b).—Infantile Mortality 84, 85, 86
VI.—Number of deaths from the seven principal
Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1899
to 1908 and in the year 1909 89
VII.—Summary of Statistics on the administration
of the Factory and Workshop Act,
1901, in connection with Factories, Workshops,
Workplaces and Home work. 90, 91
Street List 92