Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital statistics and the work of the Public Health Department for the years 1914-18 (inclusive)
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CONTENTS.
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Acute Poliomyelitis 8
Administrative Work 30
Analytical Work 42
Arsenic in Foodstuffs 43
Bacteriological Examinations, Results of 31
Bakehouses, Inspection of .37
Births 1
,, Notification of 2
,, "Hopeless" 24
„ Illegitimate 1
„ Still-births 2
Canals, Canal Boats Acts 35
Cancer, Mortality from 21
Cerebro-spinal Fever 8
Chickenpox 30
Childbed, Mortality in 9
Childhood, Mortality in 23
Combined Drainage 33
Dairies ana Milkshops 40
Deaths 3
Deaths in Institutions—All Causes 23
Diphtheria 7
Disinfection 31
Drainage Plans33
Drains,Private,Re-laid 33
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, Work
under 36
Flooding 34
Food Adulteration 42
Food Supervision 39
Home Workers (Outworkers) 36
Hospital Isolation 7
House Sanitation 32
Housing .37
Housing Acts 37
Ice Cream, Inspection of Places where made 41
Illegitimates, Births of 1
„ Deaths of 25
Infants, Mortality among 23
„ „ . in Special Areas 24
Influenza, Mortality from 22
Inquests held 22
Institutions, Deaths in 23
Internotification 32
Legal Proceedings, Summary of 44
Manure, Removal of 35
Measles 26
Meat Condemned in Slaughterhouses 40
„ Seized in Shops, &c. 42
"Meningitis" 8
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Milk Supply 40
Milkshops, Trades carried on at 40
Mortality among Infants 23
„ „ „ " Hopeless Births" 24
„ at ages 1—5 years 25
,, in Childbed 9
Mortuary 35
Mumps 30
Notification of Births 2
,, „ Sickness 5
„ ,, Tuberculosis 9
Offensive Refuse 35
Office Work 44
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 9
Outworkers (Homework) 36
Overcrowding 38
Phthisis, Mortality from 17
Pig Keeping 35
Poliomvelitis 8
Population 1
Preservatives in Foods 43
Prevention of Infectious Disease 30
Puerperal Fever 8
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 17
Respiratory Diseases, Mortality from 22
Ringworm 30
Sanatorium Benefit 14
Scarlet Fever 7
Schools and Infectious Diseases 31
Sewer Connections 33
Sickness (Notification) 5
Slaughterhouses, Inspection of 39
Smoke Nuisance 35
Staff 30
Tenement Houses 37
Trade Nuisances 35
Tuberculosis: Dispensary Work 14
,, Notification 9
„ Mortality 16
,. Treatment of 12
Unsound Food 42
Vaccination 6
Vital Statistics 1
Water Supply, Cutting off of 35
Whooping Cough 29
Workshop Supervision 36
APPENDIX.
Tables I to XIX.