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
Bethnal Green 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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140
Personal Cleansing Stations 16,77
Pneumo-Thorax Refills 87
Population 19
Poultry Slaughterers 106
Propaganda: "Better Health" 16
Talks to Mothers 32
Leaflets 33
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE 1
Public Health Expenditure 9
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 60
Rag and Bone Dealers 115
Rag Flock Act 114
Ruts and Mice 113
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages 15
Rent Restrictions Acts 1ll
Sanatorium Treatment 85
Sanitary Inspectors, work of 109
Scabies (Itch) 77
Scarlet Fever 67
Shelter for Contacts 78
do. Open-Air Sleeping 85
Slaughterhouses 104, 106
Smallpox 68-71
Smoke Nuisance 111
Social Welfare 6-8
Special Clinic for Delicate Children 44
Sputum Outfits 84
Staff 2-3
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS 6-27
Stillbirths 20,61
Talks to Mothers 32
Tenement Houses 110
Tonsils, Adenoids and Mastoid Disease 53
TUBERCULOSIS 79-87,127-137
Unsound Food 106
Vaccination 15
Venereal Disease 15
Verminous Conditions 77
VITAL STATISTICS 17-27
Water Supply 111
Welfare Centres 31-33,64
Whooping Cough 74