London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Bermondsey 1915

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1915

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VITAL STATISTICS— page
Population 8
Births 10
Marriages 11
Deaths 12
Infantile Mortality 14
Zymotic Diseases 16
Senile Mortality 17
Death Certification 17
Small-pox 17
Measles 17
Whooping Cough 17
Typhus Fever 17
Enteric Fever 17
Tubercular Diseases 18
Phthisis 18
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis of Liver 18
Cancer 19
Heart Diseases 19
Suicides 19
Accidents 19
Other Violent Deaths 19
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE—
Small-pox 20
Typhus Fever 21
Diphtheria 21
Scarlet Fever 23
Measles 24
Enteric Fever 25
Puerperal Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 24
Membranous Croup ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 24
Ophthalmia Neonatorum ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 25
Cerebro-Spinal-Meningitis ... ... ... ... ... 25
Acute Polio-myelitis... ... ... ... ... ... 28
Bacteriological Laboratory ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 29