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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
Bethnal Green 1915
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1915 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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SYNOPSIS—continued. page
Diphtheria 27
Enteric Fever 28
Whooping Cough 28
Diarrhœa 29
Measles 29
Chicken Pox 29
Erysipelas 30
Appendicitis 30
Diseases of Parturition 31
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 31
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 31
Acute Poliomyelitis 32
Tuberculosis 32
Do. Occupations and persons notified 36
Tuberculosis Dispensary 38
Cancer 39
Health Visitors—Summary of Work 40
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme 43, 45
Public Health (Shell-fish) Regulations, 1915 46
Army Canteen Contractors 46
Flies and Disease 47
Removal of Refuse 47
Sanitary Conditions in Shops 47
Inquests 48
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 to 1903 48
Brady Street Area 49
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics of Whole District 63
II. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified 64
II. (a) Public Health Tubercidosis Regulations,
1912—Notifications 65
III. Causes of, and Ages at Death 66
IV., IV. (a), IV. (b) Infantile Mortality 67-69
V. Number of Deaths from the Seven Principal
Zymotic Diseases in ten years, 1905 to
1914, and in the year 1915 70
Administration of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 71-72
Street List 73-79
Memorandum by Town Clerk and Medical Officer of
Health re Proposed Tuberculosis Dispensary 80