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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 1910

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1910

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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. page
Births 9
Deaths 11
Deaths in Public Institutions 14
Infantile Mortality 14
Marriages 11
Notification of Births Act 17
Population 9
Senile Mortality 23
Infectious and other Diseases.
Alcoholism 49
Bacteriological Examinations 49
Cancer 48
Diarrhœa 41
Diphtheria 33
Enteric Fever 35
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Fever 39
Erysipelas 39
Measles 39
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 29
Puerperal Fever 38
Scarlet Fever 31
Small Pox 31
Tuberculosis 43
Whooping Cough 41
Zymotic Diseases 25
General Sanitary Administration.
Ambulances 62
Block Dwellings 56
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 59
Common Lodging Houses 56
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 57
Disinfection 57
Effluvium Nuisance 62