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Holborn 1914

Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Introduction 5
Population and Houses 7
Estimated Population, 1914 7
Registered Births and Birth-Rates 7
Ditto Corrected 8
Mortality 8
Deaths Registered 8
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 8
Ditto outside the Borough 9
Corrected Deaths and Death-rates 9
Infantile Mortality 9
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 10
(1) Care and feeding of Infants 10
(2) Notification of Births Act, 1907 10
(3) Modified Milk for Infants 11
(4) School for Mothers 11
(5) Dinner Tickets 12
Senile Mortality 12
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases 12
Ditto ditto during 1914 and ten preceding years 13
Ditto Measles 14
Ditto Whooping Cough 14
Ditto Diarrhoea and Enteritis 15
Ditto Phthisis 15
Ditto Influenza 15
Ditto Alcoholism 15
Ditto Cancer 15
Inquests 16
The Public Mortuary 16
Infectious Diseases 16
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1914 and ten preceding years 17
Small Pox 18
Scarlet fever 18
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 18
Ditto Secondary Cases 18
Ditto Return Cases 18
Diphtheria 18
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 18
Ditto Secondary and Return Cases 19
Ditto Anti-Toxin 19
Enteric Fever 19
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 19
Polio-Myelitis and Encephalitis 19
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 19
Whooping Cough 20
Phthisis or Consumption 20
Ditto ditto Notification Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations. 1908, 1911 & 1912 21
National Insurance Act. 1911—Sanatorium Benefit—Tuberculosis Dispensary 22
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in man 22
Bacteriology 23
Disinfections 23
Shelter during disinfection of houses 23
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897—New Cleansing Station 23
Housing of the Working Classes Acts 24
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, Section 17 24
Underground Sleeping Rooms 24
Erection of Dwellings for Working Classes 25
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