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 1913
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1913
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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. page
Births 7
Deaths 9
Deaths in Public Institutions 12
Infantile Mortality 14
Marriages 9
Notification of Births Act 17
Population 7
Senile Mortality 28
Infectious and other Diseases.
Acute Polio-myelitis 38
Alcoholism 42
Bacteriological Examinations 51
Cancer 42
Diarrhœa 40
Diphtheria 33
Epidemic Cerehro-spinal Meningitis 35
Erysipelas 38
Enteric Fever 37
Measles 38
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 27
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 38
Puerperal Fever 37
Scarlet Fever 29
Small Pox 29
Tuberculosis 42
Whooping Cough 39
Zymotic Diseases 25
General Sanitary Administration.
Ambulances 65
Block Dwellings 60
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 62
Common Lodging Houses 59
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 60
Disinfection 61