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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 1920
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1920
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VITAL STATISTICS— p age
Population 7
Births 7
Marriages 8
Deaths 8
Infantile Mortality 9
Zymotic Diseases 9
Measles 10
Whooping Cough 10
Enteric Fever 10
Tubercular Diseases 10
Phthisis 10
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE—
Diphtheria 11
Scarlet Fever 11
Measles 12
Enteric Fever 12
Puerperal Fever 12
Opthalmia Neonatorum 12
Cerebrospinal Meningitis 12
Polio-Myelitis 12
Bacteriological Laboratory 12
SANITAIIY ADMINISTRATION —
Pood Inspectors' Work 14
Unsound Food 15
Milk Premises 15
Slaughterhouses 15
Ice Cream Premises 15
Food and Drugs 16
General Sanitary Work 16
Smoke Nuisances 16
House Refuse 16
Offensive Trades 16
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 17
Disinfection 17