Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1910
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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VITAL STATISTICS—
Population 4
Births 5
Marriages 5
Deaths 5
Infantile Mortality 8
Zymotic Diseases 8
Senile Mortality 8
Death Certification 9
Small-pox 9
Measles 9
Diarrhœa 9
Whooping Cough 9
Typhus Fever 9
Enteric Fever 9
Other Allied Diseases 9
Tubercular Diseases 10
Phthisis 10
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of
Liver 10
Cancer and Malignant Disease 10
Heart Diseases 11
Suicides 11
Accidents 11
Other Violent Deaths 11
NOTIFICATION OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASE—
Small-pox 11
Typhus Fever 11
Diphtheria 11
Scarlet Fever 12
Measles 13
Enteric Fever 13
Puerperal Fever 13
Membranous Croup 13
Phthisis 13
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 19
Anthrax 19
Consultations 19
Children excluded from School 20
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION—
Offensive Matter 22
Offensive Trades 22
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SANITARY ADMINISTRATION—continued.
Unsound Food 22
Food Places 23
Unsound Food Seizures 23
Bacteriological Laboratory 23
Unsound Food and Foreign
Meat Regulations 24
Hairdressers and Barbers 27
Inspections 27
Housing, Town Planning, &c.,
Act, 1909 27
Milk Premises 29
Cowsheds 29
Slaughterhouses 29
Ice Cream Premises 29
Houses Let in Lodgings 29
Food Examined 30
Food Inspector's Work 31
Housing of the Working Classes
Acts 31
Food and Drugs 31
Sec. 48 Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 31
Disinfection 32
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 32
Smoke Nuisances 32
House Refuse 32
Overcrowding 33
Health Visitor's Work 37
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOP-
Outworkers 37
APPENDIX—TABLES—
Local Government Board
Tables 38-42
Population, &c., of' Wards 43
Meteorology 43
Marriages 0 43
Proceedings during Year 44
Factories and Workshops 45-47
Sanitary Work 48
Food and Drugs 49-52
List of Bakehouses 53
Extended Table of Deaths 54