London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
This page requires JavaScript
SYNOPSIS—continued.
PAGE
Enteric Fever 35
Whooping Cough 35
Diarrhoea 36
Measles 37
Variola 43
Chicken Pox 45
Erysipelas 45
Diseases of Parturition 45
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 46
Cerebro-spinal meningitis 47
Acute Polio-myelitis and Encephalitis 47
Tuberculosis 48
Fairlight Sanatorium, Hastings 56
Cancer 60
Inquests 60
Suicides 60
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909—
Digby Street Area 61
Brady Street Area 63
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 to 1903 64
National Insurance Act, 1911 64
The Rag Flock Act, 1911 66
APPENDIX.
Report of Woman Inspector 73
Regulations—Rag Flock Act, 1911 84
Table I.—Vital Statistics of Whole District 87
II.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified 88
III.—Causes of, and Ages at Death 89
III. (a)—Deaths in Sub-districts 90
IV, IV (a) and IV (b).-Infantile Mortality 91-93
V.—Number of Deaths from the seven principal
Zymotic Diseases in ten years, 1901 to 1910 and
in the year 1911 94
Administration of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 95
Street List 97