London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1909
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The accession of these cases, the facility with which each one
disseminates consumption or whatever other contagious or
infectious disease taint he possesses, both these causes tend to
raise the general death rate, or to keep it at its level, and have
a similar result in the case of consumption or of any other special
affection to which this paragraph applies.
INQUESTS.
Inquests were held on the bodies of 175 persons belonging to
the Borough.
The verdicts were as follows:—
| Natural Causes— | Suicide— | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pneumonia | 13 | Hanging | 2 |
| Bronchitis | 1 | Poisoning | 5 |
| Heart and Circulatory Diseases | 36 | Run over | 4 |
| Injuries from fall | 1 | ||
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 15 | — | |
| Alcoholism | 3 | 12 | |
| Cirrhosis of Liver | 2 | ||
| Congestion of Lungs | 3 | Accidents— | |
| Tuberculosis | 4 | ||
| Diarrhoea | 6 | Burns and scalds | 12 |
| Intestinal obstruction | 1 | Suffocation in bed | 21 |
| Influenza | 1 | ,, by feeding | 3 |
| Miscellaneous | 5 | Injuries from fall | 25 |
| 90 | Run over | 2 | |
| Drowning | 2 | ||
| Injuries to lungs, limbs, skull | 6 | ||
| While under Chloroform | 1 | ||
| Poisoning | 1 | ||
| 73 | |||
DISEASE RECORDS.
The diseases now notifiable under Section 55 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, are Smallpox, Cholera, Diphtheria or
Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid,
Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal Fevers.
Cerebro Spinal Fever, Glanders, Anthrax, and Hydrophobia in
man are likewise notifiable in London, under an order of the
London County Council under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public
Health (London) Act.