Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1925 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Homes for Dying Consumptives 86
Home workers 36, 37
Hospitals 24
Housing Section 41-48
Housing Committee 3
Housing Conditions where births occurred 109, 110
Housing Conditions where deaths of young children occurred 117
Housing of Tuberculous Cases 89
Ice Cream 56
Infant Welfare Centres 26
Infantile Mortality 15
Infectious Diseases 72-77, 79-107
Influenza 77
Insanitary Areas 45
Institutions for Unmarried Mothers and Infants 113
Laboratory Work 70-72
Legal Proceedings 40
"Light" Treatment 123
Malaria 79
Margarine, Wholesale Dealers 56
Marriages 10
Maternal Deaths 15,114
Maternity and Child Welfare 24, 107-131
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 3
Measles 19, 80,125
Meat, Inspection, and Meat Regulations, 1924 52-55
Medicines, Compounded, Analysis of 57
Midwives 29, 111, 121
Milk, Condensed or Dried 66
Milk and Cream Regulations, 1912 and 1917 66
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 48, 49
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922 50-52
Milk, Graded 50
Milk and Food for Mothers and Infants 122
Milk and Milkshops 48-52, 56
Mortuary, Public 40
Notification of Births Act, 1907 12
Nursing Facilities 28
Offensive Trades 56
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 80, 125
Outworkers (see Home workers).
Overcrowding 31
Personal Cleansing 77-79
Pneumonia, Acute primary 80
Polio Myelitis, Acute 75, 80, 126
Population 10
Population, Natural Increase of 12
Year. | Number of Births. | Number of Deaths. | Infantile Deaths. | Number of Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number. | Rate per 1000 Births. | ||||
1902 | 239 | 135 | 18 | 75 | 15 |
1903 | 211 | 121 | 13 | 62 | 13 |
1904 | 217 | 141 | 23 | 106 | 12 |
1905 | 209 | 131 | 13 | 62 | 10 |
1906 | 187 | 127 | 8 | 43 | 13 |
1907 | 205 | 114 | 13 | 63 | 10 |
1908 | 205 | 126 | 8 | 39 | 16 |
1909 | 204 | 130 | 16 | 78 | 8 |
1910 | 207 | 119 | 9 | 43 | 8 |
1911 | 189 | 135 | 17 | 90 | 10 |
1912 | 188 | 127 | 8 | 42 | 7 |
1913 | 214 | 126 | 16 | 75 | 5 |
1914 | 195 | 141 | 9 | 46 | 11 |
1915 | 317 | 144 | 12 | 38 | 6 |
1916 | 189 | 127 | 7 | 37 | 6 |
1917 | 185 | 132 | 13 | 70 | 11 |
1918 | 149 | 155 | 7 | 47 | 9 |
1919 | 196 | 159 | 20 | 102 | 9 |
1920 | 213 | 132 | 9 | 42 | 7 |
1921 | 197 | 143 | 12 | 61 | 7 |
1922 | 202 | 151 | 10 | 49 | 7 |
1923 | 156 | 147 | 6 | 38 | 10 |
1924 | 145 | 164 | 9 | 62 | 10 |
1925 | 145 | 137 | 5 | 34 | 10 |
Year. | Number of Births. | Number of Deaths. | Infantile Deaths. | Number of Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number. | Rate per 1000 Births. | ||||
1902 | 103 | 95 | 3 | 29 | 7 |
1903 | 95 | 101 | 9 | 95 | 1 |
1904 | 100 | 99 | 13 | 130 | 8 |
1905 | 96 | 92 | 4 | 42 | 4 |
1906 | 97 | 92 | 10 | 103 | 5 |
1907 | 75 | 86 | 8 | 107 | 2 |
1908 | 93 | 78 | 6 | 65 | 4 |
1909 | 83 | 88 | 4 | 48 | 3 |
1910 | 96 | 78 | 2 | 21 | 5 |
1911 | 82 | 99 | 6 | 73 | 3 |
1912 | 117 | 77 | 6 | 51 | 9 |
1913 | 97 | 99 | 9 | 93 | 4 |
1914 | 88 | 99 | 5 | 57 | 2 |
1915 | 77 | 104 | 5 | 65 | 2 |
1916 | 104 | 95 | 12 | 115 | 5 |
1917 | 114 | 109 | 7 | 61 | 6 |
1918 | 97 | 119 | 6 | 62 | 11 |
1919 | 97 | 130 | 10 | 104 | 6 |
1920 | 161 | 109 | 6 | 37 | 3 |
1921 | 133 | 119 | 10 | 75 | 8 |
1922 | 149 | 121 | 6 | 40 | 5 |
1923 | 141 | 128 | 6 | 42 | 6 |
1924 | 149 | 121 | 10 | 67 | 7 |
1925 | 117 | 112 | 4 | 34 | 4 |