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 1956
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1956
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT— PAGE
Public Health Committee 4
Staff 4
VITAL STATISTICS—
Area 13
Population 13
Births 13
Deaths 14
Marriages 14
Infantile Mortality Rates 15
Deaths from Tuberculosis 15
Vital Statistics of District 15
Causes 17
Infantile Mortality, Causes of Deaths 19
Extracts from Vital Statistics, 1956 20
INFECTIOUS DISEASES—
Diseases Notifiable 21
Food Poisoning 21
Cases Notified in 1955 22
Cases Notified for last ten years 23
TUBERCULOSIS—
New Cases and Deaths 24
Notification Register 24
25Summary of Notifications
SANITARY—Circumstances of the Borough
Housing 26
Housing Act, 1936 —Overcrowding 26
Eradication of Bed Bugs 26
Inspections and Proceedings 26
Registered Premises 28
Smoke Nuisances 8
Water Supply to Tenement Houses 29
Sale of Food 29