Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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vii.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A.—Vital Statistics.
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Population 3
Births 4
Deaths 5
„ from Zymotic Diseases 7
„ of Infants 7
Infantile Mortality, Causes of 8
B.— Prevalence of Disease.
Infectious Diseases 17
Small Pox 17
Diphtheria 17
Scarlet Fever 19
Enteric Fever 21
Puerperal Fever 22
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 22
Measles 24
Whooping Cough 25
Epidemic Diarrhcea 25
Consumption or Phthisis 28
Other Tuberculous Diseases 40
Cancer 40
C.—Food Supply.
Milk Shops 43
Ice Cream Vendors 44
Underground Bakehouses 45
Slaughter Houses 45
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 45
Margarine 47
Water Supply 47
D.—Housing.
Inhabited Houses 51
Council's Lodging Houses 51
Houses Let in Lodgings 52
Furnished Rooms 52
Common Lodging Houses 54
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations
1910 54
House-to-House Inspection 56
D.—Housing—continued.
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Underground Rooms 56
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 56
E.—Factories and Workshops.
Women's Workshops 59
Home Work 60
Men's Workshops 63
Home Office Tables 63
F.— Sanitation.
Dust Removal 69
Drainage Work 69
Public Lavatories 69
Nuisance from Smoke 69
Sanitary Inspection 69
Legal Proceedings 70
Disinfection 72
Verminous Persons 73
Public Mortuary 74
Vaccination 75
G.—Appendix.
Local Government Board Tables.
Table I.—Vital Statistics, 1911 and
Previous Years 79
Table II.—Infectious Diseases 80
Table III.—Causes of Death 81
Table IV.—Infantile Mortality 82
Table XII.—Phthisis : Sanatorium
and Hospital Accommodation 94
London County Council Summary.
Table V.—Proceedings during 1911 83
Other Statistical Tables.
Table VI--Work of Sanitary Inspectors
84
Table VII.—Deaths, Sex, Age and
Cause 85
Table VIII.—Births and Deaths in
Quinquennial Periods 91
Table IX.—Zymotic Deaths in Quinquennial
Periods 92
Table X.—Zymotic Death Rates in
Quinquennial Periods 92
Table XI.—Vaccination Returns, 1910 93