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
Bethnal Green 1916
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1916
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SYNOPSIS—continued.
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Table "O," Condition of Premises 25
Scarlet Fever 25
Diphtheria 25
Enteric Fever 26
Whooping Cough 27
Diarrhœa 27
Measles 27
Chicken Pox 28
Erysipelas 28
Appendicitis 28
Diseases of Parturition 28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 29
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 29
Acute Poliomyelitis 29
Tuberculosis 30
Do. Occupations and persons notified 32
Tuberculosis Dispensary 35
Cancer 35
Housing of the Working Classes Acts 36
Brady Street Area 38
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme . 38
Health Visitors—Summary of Work 41
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics of Whole District 44
II. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified 45
II. (a) Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations,
1912 —Notifications 46
III. Causes of, and Ages at Death 47
IV. Infantile Mortality 48
V. Number of Deaths from the Seven Principal
Zymotic Diseases in ten years, 1906 to 1915,
and in the year 1916 49
Administration of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 50