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 1927
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1927
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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 23
Weighing Centres 23
Grants to Mothers and Children 24
Hospital Treatment 26
Puerperal Fever 27
Maternal Mortality 27
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 28
Deaths and Death Rates 28
Inquests 29
Infant Mortality 30
Tuberculosis 33
Phthisis Notifications and Deaths 34
Other Forms of Tuberculosis 41
Tuberculosis Dispensary 41
Infectious Disease 42
Housing 67
Housing on L.C.C. Estates 68
Disinfection 73
Food Inspection 74
Slaughter Houses 75
Milk Shops 75
Samples for Analysis 76
Offensive Trades 78
Factories and Workshops 78
Homework 84
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 85
Common Lodging Houses 85
Canal Boats 85
Mortuary 86
Staff 86
Work of the Staff 88
Legal Proceedings 91
Statistical Tables 92-94