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 for the year 1911
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Infectious Disease, Deaths and
Summary 5 Notifications110
P°PuIation 5 Disinfection 113
Births 7 Protection of Food Supply 115
Notification of Births 9 Meat and Food Inspection 115
Health Visitation 10 Unsound Food Prosecutions 118
Weighing Centres 20 wholesale Meat Salesmen .. 119
Special Birth Enquiry 25 Cool Air Stores 120
Midwives' Act 42 slaughterhouses 121
Puerperal Fever 42 Milk Supply 122
Deaths and Death Rates 44 Milk Registration 123
Inquests 50 Milk Samples and Analyses 124
Infantile Mortality 50 Milk Samples in the Metropo-
Infant Deaths (Table) 53 litan Boroughs, 1910 126
Deaths from Diarrhoea 54 Ice Cream Shops 127
Infant Deaths in previous Restaurants 127
Years 56 Butter Manufacturers 127
Cancer57 Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 127
Atcoholism 58 Housing 129
Consumption of the Lungs 60 Registered Houses 130
Phthisis . Common Lodging Houses 131
Notification and Deaths(Table) 61 House-to-House Inspection 131
Deaths and Death Rate's, Crowding and Overcrowding 133
1901-1911 82 Customs and Inland Revenue
Deaths in Institutions, Acts 137
1901-1911 84 Verminous Houses 138
Death Rates, 1911 and Stable Dwellings 139
1906-1910 85 Factories and Workshops 139
Visits and Re-visits .. 87 Homeworkers 146
What more may be done. 90 Bakehouses 149
Glanders and Anthrax 92 Canal Boats 150
Plague and Cholera 92 Elementary Schools 151
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis .93 Black Smoke 152
Polio Myelitis 93 Cleansing of Persons 152
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 93 The Mortuaries 153
Erysipelas 93 The shelter 153
Chicken Pox 94 Offensive Trades 154
Small-Pox 95 Staff of Department 151
Measles and Hooping Cough 96 Work of the Inspectors 155
Scarlet Fever 99 Work of the Lady Sanitary In-
Diphtheria 101 spector 156
Typhoid Fever 104 Legal Proceedings 157