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
Bermondsey 1938
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1938
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PUBLIC HEALTH
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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 20
Enteric Fever 20
Dysentery 20
Small-Pox 20
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 21
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 21
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 22
Measles 22
Whooping Cough 22
Anthrax 23
Disinfection 23
Cleansing Station 24
Shelter 24
Bacteriological Laboratory 24
Food Poisoning 25
Insulin for Diabetic Patients 25
Nursing 26
Cases Notified in 1938 27
Cases Notified for last ten years 28
TUBERCULOSIS—
New Cases and Deaths 29
Period between Notifications and Deaths 29
Nursing, Extra Nourishment and Shelters 30
Lady Almoner 30
Work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary 31
Summary of Notifications 32
Cases on the Register 33