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
Battersea 1912
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1912
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. page
Births 9
Deaths 11
Deaths in Public Institutions 15
Infantile Mortality 15
Marriages 11
Notification of Births Act 18
Population 9
Senile Mortality 26
Infectious and other Diseases.
Alcoholism 58
Bacteriological Examinations 58
Cancer 58
Diarrhoea 41
Diphtheria 34
Enteric Fever 36
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 38
Erysipelas 38
Measles 39
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 31
Puerperal Fever 37
Scarlet Fever 33
Small Pox 33
Tuberculosis 42
Whooping Cough 40
Zymotic Diseases 27
General Sanitary Administration.
Ambulances 78
Block Dwellings 72
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 75
Common Lodging Houses 72
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 73
Disinfection 73