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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 1919

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1919

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VITAL STATISTICS— Page
Population 6
Births 6
Marriages 7
Deaths 7
Infantile Mortality 8
Zymotic Diseases 8
Measles 8
Whooping Cough 9
Enteric Fever 9
Tubercular Diseases 9
Phthisis 9
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE—
Diphtheria 10
Scarlet Fever 10
Measles 11
Enteric Fever 11
Puerperal Fever 11
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 11
Cerebro- Spinal- Meningitis 11
Polio-myelitis 11
Bacteriological Laboratory 12
Oxley Street Centre 12
Unregistered Dentists 14
Self-Raising Flour 16
War Memorial 17
Lying-in Hostel 21