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Port of London 1920
Report for the year ended 31st December 1920 of the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London
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INDEX.
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Actinomycosis 45
Aliens 7
Beef 45
Canal Boats Acts 56
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 21
Chicken-pox 21
Cholera 13
Continued Fever 21
Diphtheria 18
Dysentery 27
Enteric Fever17
Erysipelas 28
Establishment, &c. 5
Fish 46
Food Inspection 44
Foreign Meat Regulations 44
Fruit 46-7
Gastro-Enteritis 28
German Measles 20
Grain 48
Hospital 41-55
Infectious Disease 8-41
„ „ Regulations 8
Influenza 24-6
Introductory 6
Launches, Hulks, &c. 55
Malaria 22
Meal and Flour 48
Measles 19
Meats, Canned 46
,, Smoked, Salted and Sundry 46
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Medical Inspection 7
Mumps 28
Mutton and Lamb 45
Notification of Infectious Disease 10
Nuisances 52-3
Nuts 47
Offal 46
Offensive Cargoes 54
Onchocerca 45
Plague 10
Pneumonia 27
Pork 45
Port, Limits of, Ac. 3
Prepared Foods and Provisions, Ac. 48
Preserves, Jain, &c. 47
Rabbits 46
Rat and Mice Destruction Act 38
Rats 31-41
Sanitary Conveniences, &c. 54
Sanitary Inspection 51-5
Sausages 46
Scarlet Fever 19
Small-pox 14-17
Staff 5-56
Sundry Foodstuffs 44-50
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary, &c). 23
Typhus Fever 14
Unsound Food 42-50
Veal 46
Venereal Disease 29
Yellow Fever 13-14
INDEX TO TABLES.
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I. Medical Inspection 7
II. Infectious Disease—Summary 9
III. Compulsory Notification of
Infectious Disease, with
number of Deaths 10
IV. Plague 10
V. Cholera 13
VI. Yellow Fever 13
VII. Typhus Fever 14
VIII. Small-pox 14
IX. Enteric Fever 17
X. Diphtheria 18
XI. Scarlet Fever 19
XII. Measles 19
XIII. German Measles 20
XIV. Continued Fever 21
XV. Chicken-pox 21
XVI. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 21
XVII. Malaria 22
XVIII. Tuberculosis—Pulmonary 23
XIX. Influenza 24
XX. Pneumonia 26
XXI. Dysentery 27
XXII. Erysipelas 28
XXIII. Mumps 28
XXIV. Gastro-Enteritis 28
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XXV. Venereal Disease 29
XXVI. Miscellaneous Diseases 30
XXVII. Vessels and Premises Disinfected
31
XXVIII. Number of Disinfections of
Effects 31
XXIX. Rats Destroyed 32
XXX. Rats—Fumigation of Vessels 33
XXXI. Rats „ „
(Foreign) 33
XXXII. Hospital Cases, &c. 41
XXXIII. Unsound Food-Seized, &c. 42
XXXIV. Unsound Meat—Destroyed,
Weights, &c. 43
XXXV. Sanitary Inspection—Summary
51
XXXVI. Sanitary Inspection—Nuisances
on Vessels 52
XXXVII. Sanitary Inspection—Nuisances
in Shore Premises 53
XXXVIII. Sanitary Inspection—New
Works 54
XXXIX. Sanitary Inspection—Offensive
Cargoes 54
XL. Canal Boats 60
APPENDIX.
Return of Rats examined for evidence of Plague
Revenue Account.