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 1909
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1909
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. page
Births 9
Deaths 11
Deaths in Public Institutions 14
Home Office Enquiry 17
Infantile Mortality 14
Marriages 11
Notification of Births Act 18
Population 9
Senile Mortality 22
Infectious and other Diseases.
Alcoholism 45
Bacteriological Examinations 45
Cancer 45
Diarrhoea 39
Diphtheria 31
Enteric Fever 33
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Fever 38
Erysipelas 37
Measles 38
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 28
Puerperal Fever 37
Scarlet Fever 30
Small Pox 29
Tuberculosis 41
Whooping Cough 39
Zymotic Diseases 24
General Sanitary Administration.
Ambulances 65
Block Dwellings 57
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 63
Common Lodging Houses 57
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 58
Disinfection 60
House-to-house Inspection 50
Houses Let in Lodgings 53