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 1939
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1939
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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 9
Dwellings 9
Rateable Value 9
Population 9
Births 9
Deaths 10
Marriages 10
Infantile Mortality Rates 11
Deaths from Tuberculosis 11
Vital Statistics of District 12
Causes of Death 15
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 17
Infantile Mortality, Causes of Deaths 18
INFECTIOUS DISEASES—
Diseases Notifiable 19
Diphtheria 19
Scarlet Fever 20
Acute Poliomyelitis 20
Small-pox 20
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 20
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 20
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 21
Measles 21
Whooping Cough 21
Anthrax 21
Disinfection 22
Cleansing Station 22
Shelter 23
Bacteriological Laboratory 23
Food Poisoning 23
Insulin for Diabetic Patients 23
Nursing 24
Cases Notified in 1939 25
Cases Notified for last ten years 26
TUBERCULOSIS-
New Cases and Deaths 27
Period between Notifications and Deaths 27
Nursing, Extra Nourishment and Shelters 28
Lady Almoner 28
Work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary 29
Summary of Notifications 30
Cases on the Register 31