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 1926
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1926
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Statistics 5
Population 6
Births and Birth Rates 8
Maternity and Child Welfare 10
Health Visitation 18
Weighing Centres 18
Grants to Mothers and Children 19
Hospital Treatment 21
Puerperal Fever 22
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 22
Deaths and Death Rates 22
Inquests 23
Infant Mortality 24
Tuberculosis 28
Phthisis Notifications and Deaths 29
Tuberculosis Dispensary 36
Infectious Disease 37
Housing 45
Finsbury Housing Scheme 46
Housing on L.C.C. Estates 61
Disinfection 61
Food Inspection 64
Slaughter Houses 67
Butchers' Shops 68
Milk Shops 70
Samples for Analysis 74
Offensive Trades 76
Factories and Workshops 76
Homework 83
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 84
Common Lodging Houses 84
Canal Boats 84
Mortuary 85
Staff 85
Work of the Staff 87
Legal Proceedings 90
Statistical Tables 92