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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
Stoke Newington 1899
Report of the Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the year 1899
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Vital Statistics— page
Population of the Parish and of each of the two Divisions 7-8
Number of people to the acre 8
Births and Birth-rate 8
Mortality, Death-rates and causes of Mortality,—with notes
thereon 9-18
The Mortuary 19
Inquests held during the year 19
Infectious Diseases and the Measures taken to Prevent
their spread—
The Infectious Sickness Returns for the Year 20-24
Disinfection 24
Hospital Isolation 24
Tuberculosis 25-29
Summer Diarrhœa 29-30
Measles and Whooping Cough 30
Typhoid Fever 30
Small-Pox and Vaccination 30-31
Diphtheria 31-34
Scarlet Fever 34
Notes upon Sanitary Work Performed during the Year 34-37
Food and Drugs 37-42
The Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, 1899 38-41
Meteorology of the Year 43-45
The Parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington-(Appendix) 46-48