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
Bethnal Green 1913
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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SYNOPSIS—continued. PAGE
Enteric Fever 45
Whooping Cough 45
Diarrhoea 46
Measles 46
Chicken Pox 46
Erysipelas 47
Diseases of Parturition 47
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 48
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 48
Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis 49
Tuberculosis 52
Tuberculosis Dispensary 54
Cancer 75
Inquests 76
Suicides 76
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 to 1903 76
Brady Street Unhealthy Area 77
Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909 98
Report of Woman Health Visitor 100
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics of Whole District 108
II. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified 109
II. (a) Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations,
1912 110
III. Causes of, and Ages at Death 111
III. (a) Deaths in Sub-districts 112
IV., IV. (a), IV. (b) Infantile Mortality 113-115
V. Number of Deaths from the Seven Principal
Zymotic Diseases in ten years, 1903 to
1912, and in the year 1913 116
Administration of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 117, 118
Official Arrangements for Pathological Work 119, 120
Street List 121-127