Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1914
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Summary 5
Population 6
Census Returns 7
Births 7
Notification of Births 10
Neighbour Nurses 12
Maternity and Child Welfare I6
Health Visitation 19
Weighing Centres 50
Dinner Centres 56
Puerperal Fever 56
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 57
Deaths and Death Rates 57
Inquests 61
Infant Mortality 61
Cancer 70
Alcoholism 71
Tuberculosis.—
Phthisis 73
Notifications and Deaths
(Table) 73
Finsbury cases 75
Deaths and Death Rates,
1901-1914 89
Death Rates, London
Boroughs 91
Tuberculosis—other forms 92
Small-Pox 94
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 94
Folio Myelitis 94
Measles 95
Hooping Cough 95
Diphtheria 102
Scarlet Fever 105
Typhoid Fever 107
Infectious Disease, Deaths and
Notifications 109
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Disinfection 111
Food Supply 112
Meat and Food Inspection 112
Unsound Food Prosecutions 114
Ox Tongues with Actinomycosis 114
Slaughterhouses 115
Milk Supply 116
Milk Registration 117
Milk Samples in the Metropolitan
Boroughs, 1913 118
Milk Samples and Analyses 119
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 121
Wrapping paper enquiry 122
Milk and Cream Regulations 124
Ice Cream Shops 124
Restaurants 124
Butter Manufacturers 125
Bakehouses 125
Housing 125
Registered Houses 126
Common Lodging Houses 127
House-to-House Inspection 127
Crowding and Overcrowding 129
Inland Revenue Acts 132
Verminous School Children 133
Underground rooms 134
Stable Dwellings 134
Factories and Workshops 135
Canal Boats 144
Black Smoke 145
The Mortuary 145
The Shelter 146
Offensive Trades 146
Staff of Department 146
Work of Inspectors 147
Lady Sanitary Inspector 148
Law Proceedings 149