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 1923
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1923
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VITAL STATISTICS— Page
Population 8
Births 8
Marriages 9
Deaths 10
Infantile Mortality 11
Zymotic Diseases 11
Measles 12
Whooping Cough 12
Enteric Fever 12
Tubercular Diseases 12
Phthisis 12
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE—
Diphtheria 14
Scarlet Fever 14
Enteric Fever 15
Puerperal Fever 15
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 15
Cerebrospinal Meningitis 16
Polio-Myelitis 16
Bacteriological Laboratory 16
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION—
Food Inspectors' Work 18
Preservatives in Foodstuffs 19
Unsound Food 20
Milk Premises 20
Slaughterhouses 21
Ice Cream Premises 21
Street Markets 21
Food and Drugs 22