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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 1936
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1936
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT— PAGE
Public Health Committee 4
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 4
Staff 5
VITAL STATISTICS
Are a 8
Dwellings 8
Rateable Value 8
Population 8
Births 8
Deaths 9
Marriages 9
Infantile Mortality Rates 10
Deaths from Tuberculosis 10
Vital Statistics of District 11
Causes of Deaths 14
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 16
Infantile Mortality, Causes of Deaths 17
INFECTIOUS DISEASES—
Diseases Notifiable 18
Scheme for the Medical Examination of Children after
Infectious Disease 19
Infectious Disease 19
Diphtheria 21
Scarlet Fever 22
Enteric Fever 22
Small Pox 28
Whooping Cough and Measles Regulations, 1936 28
Whooping Cough 28
Measles 28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 29
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 29
Disinfection 29
Cleansing Station 30
Shelter 30
Bacteriological Laboratory 31
Food Poisoning 31
Foot Clinic 32
Insulin for Diabetic Patients 33
Nursing 34
Cases Notified in 1936 35
Cases Notified for last ten years 36
TUBERCULOSIS—
New Cases and Deaths 37
Period between Notifications and Deaths 37
Nursing and Extra Nourishment 40
Shelters 41
Lady Almoner 41
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