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Holborn 1911

Report for the year 1911 of the Medical Officer of Health

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CONTENTS.
Page.
Introduction 5
Population and Houses 7
Estimated Population, 1911 7
Number of Tenements 8
Births aud Birth-rates 8
Ditto ditto corrected 9
Mortality 9
Deaths Registered 9
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 10
Ditto ditto outside the Borough 10
Corrected deaths and death-rates 10
Infantile Mortality 10
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 12
Care and Feeding of Infants 12
Notification of Births Act, 1907 12
Modified Milk lor Infants 13
Senile Mortality 14
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases 14
Ditto ditto during 1911 and ten preceding years 15
Ditto Measles 15
Ditto Whooping Cough 16
Ditto Diarrhœa 16
Ditto Phthisis 16
Ditto Influenza 16
Ditto Alcoholism 16
Ditto Cancer 16
Sudden and Violent Deaths 17
Inquests 17
The Public Mortuary 17
Infectious Diseases 17
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1911 and ten preceding years 18
Small Pox 19
Chicken Pox 19
Scarlet Fever 19
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 19
Ditto Secondary Cases 20
Ditto Return Cases 20
Diphtheria 20
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 20
Ditto Secondary and Return Cases 20
Enteric Fever 20
Cerebro-spinal Fever 21
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 21
Polio-myelitis and Encephalitis 21
Phthisis or Consumption 21
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification 22
Ditto ditto Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911 23
Ditto ditto Final Report, Royal Commission 24
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in Man 26
Bacteriology 26
Disinfections 26
Shelter 27
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 27
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909 27
Premises Closed Voluntarily, Demolished, Rebuilt, etc. 29
Sanitary Work 32
House to House Inspections 32
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