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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 1937
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1937
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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—
Area 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
Diphtheria 19
Scarlet Fever 23
Enteric Fever 23
Dysentery 24
Small-Pox 24
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 24
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 25
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 25
Whooping Cough 25
Measles 26
Disinfection 26
Cleansing Station 27
Shelter 28
Bacteriological Laboratory 28
Food Poisoning 29
Insulin for Diabetic Patients 29
Nursing 30
Cases Notified in 1937 31
Cases Notified for last ten years 32
TUBERCULOSIS—
New Cases and Deaths 33
Period between Notifications and Deaths 33
Nursing and Extra Nourishment 34
Shelters 34
Lady Almoner 35
Work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary 36
Summary of Notifications 37
Cases on the Register 38