Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow
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CONTENTS.
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Summary of Vital Statistics v
Vital Statistics 1
Population 1
Births and Transferable Births 2
Illegitimate Births 4
Birth Rato 4
Marriages 4
Marriage Rate 5
Deaths 5
Deaths of Illegitimate Children 5
Death Rate 0
■Zymotic Diseases, Death Rate 6
Respiratory Diseases, Death Rate 7
Infantile Mortality—Notification of Births Act, 1907—Tables 8,39
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Notifications, Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum)
Regulations, 1914 9
Age Mortality 9
Tubercular Diseases, Deaths, Death Rate 10
Phthisis—Deaths 11
Prevention of Consumption—Notifications; Summaries of Notifications Received;
Number of Notifications on Form D; List of Non-Pulmonary Cases; Actual
Number of Cases on Register at end of year 1919. Bacteriological Examinations;
The Borough of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption;
Deaths, Tubercular Diseases and Phthisis Number and Rate (see pages 10
and 11); Disinfection of Rooms and Articles (see page 52) 11
Tables of Deaths 19
Deaths from Drowning, &c. 22
Deaths of Persons of Unknown Addresses, included in the Mortality Statistics 22
Vital Statistics, Tables 24
Notes on Nomenclature of Diseases 28
Tables of Deaths (Classification); Deaths 30
Tables of Deaths in Public Institutions 38
Tables of Infectious Diseases 46
Zymotic Diseases, Notifications ; Institutions, Errors in Diagnosis ; Infectious
Diseases in Milkshops and on Homeworkers' Premises 50
Disinfecting Department—Rooms and Articles (Infectious Diseases and Verminous)
Disinfected 52
Electrolytic Disinfecting Fluid—Output of Fluid, Distribution of Fluid, Cost of
Material and Electricity, Bottles, Corks and Labels, Total Quantity Manufactured
since Installation of Plant, Estimate for the year ended 31st March,
1919, and Expenditure for year ended 31st March, 1919. Average expenditure
for the three years ended March, 1919. Estimated Expenditure for the
year ending 31st March, 1920, and for the year ending 31st March, 1921,
Spraying and Cleansing of Floors of London County Council Schools with
Electrolytic Fluid, Swimming Baths—the use therein of Electrolytic Disinfecting
Fluid, Comments on Adverso Criticisms.
"Verminous Children attending School—London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1907, Children Act, 1908, Number of Verminous Children Bathed, Itch
Cases 58
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 59
Verminous Persons in Common Lodging-IIouses—London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1907, Number of Persons Cleansed from Common Lodging Houses
within and without the Borough 59
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