Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Population 5
Births 6
Notification of Births 7
Health Visitation 10
Birth Investigations 18
Midwives 21
Deaths and Death Rates 24
Infantile Mortality 27
Infantile Mortality
(London Boroughs) 28
Infant Death Tables 39
Infant Death Distribution 43
Infectious Disease Deaths 48
Cancer 49
Alcoholism 52
Phthisis, Death Rates 53
Disease Records 56
Notifications 57
Small-Pox 58
Cholera 59
Diphtheria 60
Scarlet Fever 63
Enteric Fever 65
Measles and Hooping Cough 68
Phthisis:—
Notifications and Deaths
(Table) 69
Common Lodging-houses 71
Addresses 73
Residences 73
Family History 75
Source 76
Occupations 77
Street Records 80
Preventive Measures 81
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Disinfection 83
Meat Seized 84
Meat Prosecutions 90
Slaughter-houses 91
Milk Supply 92
Milk Shops 93
Milk Samples 96
Milk Prosecutions 97
Ice Cream 100
Butter and Margarine 100
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 101
Housing 103
Houses let in Lodgings 104
Common Lodging-houses 106
House-to-House Inspection 107
(Table) 108
Overcrowding 109
Underground Rooms and Stable
Dwellings 111
Factories and Workshops 112
Outworkers and Homeworkers 115
Bake-houses 119
Canal Boats 119
Schools 121
Black Smoke 123
Mortuaries 124
General Powers Act, 1969 125
House Refuse 126
Drainage Plans 127
Sanitary Inspection 127
Legal Proceedings 129