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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 1929
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1929
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT— PAGE
Public Health Committee 4
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 4
Housing Committee 5
Staff 6
VITAL STATISTICS—
Area 9
Dwellings 9
Rateable Value 9
Population 9
Births 9
Deaths 9
Marriages 10
Infantile Mortality 11
Deaths from Tuberculosis 11
Vital Statistics of District 12
Causes of Deaths 15
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 17
INFECTIOUS DISEASES—
Diseases Notifiable 18
Diphtheria 18
Scarlet Fever 19
Small Pox 19
Measles 19
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 20
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 20
Disinfection 21
Shelter 22
Bacteriological Laboratory 22
Special Report on Treatment Clinic 23
Nursing 23
Cases Notified in 1929 25
Cases Notified for last ten years 26
TUBERCULOSIS—
New Cases and Deaths 27
Period between Notifications and Deaths 28
X-Ray arrangements 28
Lady Almoner 29