Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 5
Registration Year 5
Birth-rates 6
Death-rates 6
Epidemic Death-rates. 6
Consumption, Death-rate 6
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908 6
Infectious Diseases. Prevalence of 6
,, Notification-rate 6
Cerebro-spinal Fever 7
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia 7
Royal Commission on Tuberculosis 7
Housing Accommodation for the Working Classes 7
House Refuse, Removal of 7
Manure, Removal of 7
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908 7
Outbreak of illness due to Contaminated Milk 7
Inspections, etc. 8
Area, Houses and Population 9
Estimated Population, 1909 9
Rateable Value, 1909 10
Number of Tenements 10
Births and Birth-rates 10
Ditto ditto corrected 10
Mortality 11
Deaths Registered 11
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 11
Ditto ditto outside the Borough 12
Corrected deaths and death-rates 12
Infantile Mortality 12
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 13
Care and Feeding of Infants 13
Notification of Births Act, 1907 13
Modified Milk for Infants 14
Senile Mortality 15
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases 15
Ditto ditto during 1909 and ten preceding years 16
Ditto Measles 17
Ditto Whooping Cough 18
Ditto Diarrhoea 18
Ditto Phthisis 18
Ditto Influenza 18
Ditto Alcoholism 18
Ditto Cancer 18
Sudden and Violent Deaths 18
Inquests 19
The Public Mortuary 19
Infectious Diseases 19
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1909 and ten preceding years 20
Small Pox 21
Scarlet Fever 21
Ditto Secondary Cases 22
Ditto Return Cases 22
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 22
Diphtheria 22
Ditto Secondary and Return Cases 22
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 22
Enteric Fever 22
Continued Fever 23
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