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
Finsbury 1925
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1925
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Statistics 5
Population 6
Births and Birth Rates 8
Maternity and Child Welfare 9
Health Visitation 17
Weighing Centres 18
Grants to Mothers and Children 19
Hospital Treatment 24
Puerperal Fever 24
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 25
Deaths and Death Rates 25
Inquests 26
Infant Mortality 27
Tuberculosis 31
Phthisis Notifications and Deaths 32
Tuberculosis Dispensary 39
Infectious Disease 40
Housing 48
Proposed Housing Scheme 49
Housing on L.C.C. Estates 50
Disinfection 56
Food Inspection 57
Slaughter Houses 59
Milk Shops 59
Samples for Analysis 60
Factories and Workshops 62
Homework 69
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 70
Common Lodging Houses 70
Canal Boats 70
Mortuary 71
Staff 71
Work of the Staff 73
Legal Proceedings 76
Statistical Tables 78-81