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 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health
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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 5
Registration Year 5
Birth-rates 5
Death-rates 5
Epidemic Death-rates 6
Consumption, Death-rate 6
Infectious Diseases. Prevalence of 6
„ Notification-rate 6
Destruction of Rats 6
Regulations as to Plague 6
Ophthalmia and Neonatorum 6
Cerebro-spinal Fever 6
Housing for the Working Classes 7
House Refuse, Removal of 7
Manure, Removal of 7
Poisoning by Fumes due to the Fusing of an Electric Light Cable 7
"Standard" Bread and Flour 7
Bleaching of Flour and addition of so-called "Improvers" to Flour 7
Inspections, &c. 7
Area, Houses and Population 8
Estimated Population, 1910 8
Rateable Value, 1910 9
Number of Tenements 9
Births and Birth-rates 9
Ditto ditto corrected 9
Mortality 10
Deaths Registered 10
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 10
Ditto ditto outside the Borough 11
Corrected deaths and death-rates 11
Infantile Mortality 11
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 12
Care and Feeding of Infants 12
Notification of Births Act, 1907 12
Modified Milk for Infants 13
Senile Mortality 14
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases 14
Ditto ditto during 1910 and ten preceding years 15
Ditto Measles 16
Ditto Whooping Cough 17
Ditto Diarrhœa 17
Ditto Phthisis 17
Ditto Influenza 17
Ditto Alcoholism 17
Ditto Cancer 17
Sudden and Violent Deaths 17
Inquests 18
The Public Mortuary 18
Infectious Diseases 18
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1910 and ten preceding years 19
Small Pox 20
Scarlet Fever 20
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 20
Ditto Secondary Cases 21
Ditto Return Cases 21
Diphtheria 2l
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 21
Ditto Secondary and Return Cases 21
Enteric Fever 21
A 2