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Hammersmith 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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SECTION F—Sanitary Circumstances:- Page
Atmospheric Pollution 36
Drainage 34
Dustbins 34
Factories 35
Public Cleansing 34
Rodent Control 35
Sanitary Inspection 35
Water Supply 34
SECTION C—Ceneral Provision of Health Services:-
Ambulance Facilities 37
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 42
Conferences 45
Diseased or Infirm Persons 41
Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations 44
Hammersmith Chest Clinic 37
Health Information Bureau 45
Hospitals 37
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation 41
Laboratory Facilities 37
Old People's Welfare 42
Personal Health Services 38
Clinics and Welfare Centres 39
Day Nurseries 40
Domestic Help Service 40
Staff Medical Examinations 43
STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT—TABLES
Bacteriological Examinations 66
Causes of Death in Age Groups 53
Deaths from Carcinoma of Lungs in Age Groups from year 1941 49
Disinfection 69
Extract from Vital Statistics 47
Factory Defects 60
Factory Inspections 60
General Statistics 47
Housing 62
Incidence of Cancer during the past 10 years 48
Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Neoplasms of the Lungs 50
Infant Deaths under 1 year in age groups 56
Infant Mortality 55
Infant Mortality Rates—England and Wales and various other
Countries from year 1949 58
Infectious Diseases—Notifications in age groups 65
Maternal Mortality 58
Medicinal Baths—Cleansing of Verminous Persons 69
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 64
Natural Increase or Decrease of the Population during the past 20
years 48
Outworkers 61
Sanitary Inspection, Notices served and complied with 59
Summonses—Proceedings instituted 59
Tulerculosis—Notifications and Deaths for the past 20 years 67
Tuberculosis—Notifications in Sex and Age Groups 67
Unsound Food Condemned 63
Vital Statistics of whole District from year 1925 51
CHARTS
Birth and Death Rates for the past 20 years 52
Number of Infant Deaths under 1 year of age during the past 20 years 57
Number of new cases of Tuberculosis notified during the past 20 years 68
Proportion of Deaths from Principal Causes 54