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Finsbury 1913

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1913

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Summary 5 Infectious Disease, Deaths and
Population 6 Notifications 103
Census Returns 6 Disinfection 106
Births 9 Food Supply 106
Notification of Births 11 Meat and Food Inspection 107
Health Visitation 14 Unsound Food Prosecutions 108
Weighing Centres 30 Ox Tongues with Actinomycosis 108
Mothercraft Competition 32 Slaughterhouses 111
Maternity Benefit 34 Milk Supply 111
Dinner Centres 36 Milk Registration 112
Puerperal Fever 37 Milk Samples in the Metropolitan Boroughs, 1912 113
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 38
Deaths and Death Rates 38 Milk Samples and Analyses 114
Inquests 43 Warranty Defence 116
Infant Mortality 44 Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 122
Cancer 54 Ice Cream Shops 124
Alcoholism 55 Restaurants 125
Tuberculosis:— Butter Manufacturers 125
Phthisis 57 Bakehouses 126
Notifications and Deaths Housing 128
(Table) 58 Registered Houses 128
Finsbury cases 59 Common Lodging Houses 129
Milk Supply 81 House-to-House Inspection 129
Deaths and Death Rates, Crowding and Overcrowding 131
1901-1913 83 Inland Revenue Acts 134
Death Rates, London Verminous School Children 136
Boroughs 86 Stable Dwellings 137
Tuberculosis—other forms 87 Factories and Workshops 137
Glanders and Anthrax 89 Rag Flock Act 142
Small-Pox 89 Canal Boats 146
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 90 Black Smoke 147
Polio Myelitis 90 The Mortuaries 147
Measles and Hooping Cough 91 The Shelter 148
Street List of Deaths 93 Offensive Trades 148
Diphtheria 96 Staff of Department 148
Scarlet Fever 99 Work of Inspectors 149
Typhoid Fever 101 Lady Sanitary Inspector 150
Law Proceedings 150