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Finsbury 1912

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1912

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Summary 5
Population 5
Births 7
Notification of Births 10
Health Visitation 11
Creches 34
Weighing Centres 37
Puerperal Fever 43
Opthalmia Neonatorum 45
Deaths and Death Rates 46
Inquests 51
Infantile Mortality 51
Infant Deaths Street List 54
Infant Deaths (Table) 57
Cancer 72
Alcoholism 74
Consumption of the Lungs 75
Phthisis:—
Notifications and Deaths
(Table) 76
Finsbury cases 77
Deaths and Death Rates,
1901-1912 101
Deaths in Institutions
1901-1912 103
Death Rates—I ondon Boroughs 104
Treatment of Tuberculosis 104
Tuberculosis Dispensary 106
Street List 113
Glanders and Anthrax 117
Yellow Fever, Plague and
Cholera 118
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 118
Polio Myelitis 118
Small-Pox 119
Measles and Hooping Cough 119
Scarlet Fever 122
Diphtheria 124
Typhoid Fever 127
Typhus Fever 129
Infec'ious Disease, Deaths and
Notifications 130
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Disinfection 133
Protection of Food Supply 133
Meat and Food Inspection 134
Unsound Food Prosecutions 136
Sausage Manufacturers 136
Dealers in Cats' Meat 138
Street Markets 139
Slaughterhouses 140
Milk Supply 141
Milk Registration 141
Milk Samples and Analyses 147
Milk Samples in the Metropolitan
Boroughs, 1911 144
Ice Cream Shops 149
Restaurants 149
Butter Manufacturers 150
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 150
Housing 151
Registered Houses 153
Common Lodging Houses 153
House-to-House Inspection 154
Crowding and Overcrowding 156
Customs and Inland Revenue
Acts 158
Verminous Houses 158
Stable Dwellings 159
Factories and Workshops 160
Bad Flock Act 165
Bakehouses 170
Canal Boats 170
Elementary Schools 171
Black Smoke 172
Cleansing of Persons 172
The Mortuaries 173
The Shelter 173
Offensive Trades 173
Staff of Department 174
Work of the Inspectors 175
Work of the Lady Sanitary Inspector
176
Legal Proceedings 177