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
Finsbury 1923
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1923
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Statistics 5
Population 6
Births and Birth Rates 8
Maternity and Child Welfare 9
Health Visitation 20
Weighing Centres 21
Grants to Mothers and Children 22
Hospital Treatment 28
Rest Homes 28
Puerperal Fever 28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 29
Deaths and Death Rates 29
Inquests 30
Infant Mortality 30
Tuberculosis 84
Phthisis Death Rates 41
Tuberculosis Dispensary 43
Infectious Disease 43
Housing 50
Disinfection 67
Food Inspection 68
Slaughter Houses 70
Milk Shops 71
Samples for Analysis 72
Factories and Workshops 73
Homework 80
Bakehouses 82
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 83
Common Lodging Houses 83
Canal Boats 83
Mortuary 84
Staff 85
Work of the Staff 86
Legal Proceedings 89
Statistical Tables 90