Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health 1915
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A. —Vital Statistics.
E—Factories and Workshops.
Page
Page
Population 3
Women's Workshops 37
Births 3
Home Work 37
Deaths 5
Men's Workshops 38
„ from Zymotic Diseases 6
„ of Infants 6
Infantile Mortality, Causes of 7
F.—Sanitation.
B.- Prevalence of Disease.
Dust Removal 41
Drainage Work 41
Infectious Diseases 11
Nuisance from Smoke 41
Small Pox 11
Public Lavatories 41
Diphtheria 11
Sanitary Inspection 41
Scarlet Fever 12
Enteric Fever 12
Legal Proceedings 41
Disinfection 43
Puerperal Fever 12
Cleansing Station 44
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 13
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 13
Rag Flock Act, 1911 44
Public Baths and Washhouses 44
Measles 14
Whooping Cough 14
Public Mortuary 44
Vaccination 45
Epidemic Diarrheœa 14
Tuberculosis 15
Cancer 20
G. —Appendix.
C. —Food Supply.
Milk Shops 25
Local Government Board Tables
Ice Cream Vendors 26
Table I.—Vital Statistics, 1915 and
Previous Years 49
Places where Food is Sold 26
Table II. —Infectious Diseases 50
Bakehouses 26
Table III. —Causes of Death 51
Slaughter Houses 26
Table IV. —Infantile Mortality 52
Unsound Food 27
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 27
London County Council Summary.
Cream Regulations, 1912 28
Table IX. —Proceedings during 1915 61
Water Supply 28
D.—Housing.
Other Statistical Tables.
Inhabited Houses 31
Table V. —Births and Deaths in
Quinquennial Periods 53
Council's Lodging Houses 31
Table VI. —Zymotic Deaths in Quinquennial
Periods 54
Houses Let in Lodgings 31
Furnished Rooms 32
Table VII. —Zymotic Death Rates in
Quinquennial Periods 54
Common Lodging Houses 32
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations
1910 33
Table VIII. —Deaths, Sex, Age and
Cause 55
Underground Rooms 33
Table X.-Work of Sanitary In
spectors 62
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 33