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Hammersmith 1955

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

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SECTION F - Sanitary Circumstances: - Page
Atmospheric Pollution 44
Drainage 41
Dustbins 42
Factories 42
Public Cleansing 41
Rodent Control 42
Sanitary Inspection 42
Water Supply 41
SECTION G - General provision of Health services:-
Ambulance Facilities 46
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 51
Conferences 54
Diseased or Infirm Persons 51
Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations 53
Hammersmith Chest Clinic 46
Health Information Bureau 54
Hospitals 46
International Certificates of Vaccination and
Inoculation 50
Laboratory Facilities 46
Old People's Welfare 51
Personal Health Services 47
Clinics and Welfare Centres 47
Creches 49
Day Nurseries 50
Domestic Help Service 50
Staff Medical Examinations 53
STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT - TABLES
Causes of Death in Age Groups 62
Deaths from Carcinoma of Lungs in Age Groups from
year 1941 58
Disinfection 76
Extract from Vital Statistics 56
Factory Defects 69
Factory Inspections 69
General Statistics 56
Incidence of Cancer during the past 10 years 57
Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Neoplasms of the
Lungs 59
Infant Deaths under 1 year in age groups 65
Infant Mortality 64
Infant Mortality Rates - England and Wales and various
other Countries from year 1950 67
Infectious Diseases - Notifications in Age Groups 73
Maternal Mortality 67
Medicinal Baths - Cleansing of Verminous Persons 76
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 72
Natural Increase or Decrease of the Population during
the past 20 years 57
Outworkers 70
Sanitary Inspection, Notices served and complied with 68
Summonses - Proceedings instituted 68
Tuberculosis - Notifications and deaths for the past 20
years 74
Tuberculosis - Notifications in sex and age groups 74
Unsound Food Condemned 71
Vital Statistics of Whole District from year 1925 60
CHARTS
Birth and Death Rates for the past 20 years 61
Number of Infant Deaths under 1 year of age during the
past 20 years 66
Number of new cases of Tuberculosis notified during the
past 20 years 75
Proportion of Deaths from Principal Causes 63