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 Hammersmith Borough]
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Rodent Control 26
Sanitary Inspection 25
Water Supply 25
SECTION G—General Provision of Health Services:—
Ambulance Facilities 28
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 32
Conferences 33
Diseased or Infirm Persons 32
Financial Contributions to Voluntary Organisations 33
Hammersmith Chest Clinic 28
Health Information Bureau 33
Hospitals 28
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation 31
Laboratory Facilities 28
Old People's Welfare 32
Personal Health Services 29
Clinics and Welfare Centres 29
Creches 31
Day Nurseries 31
Domestic Help Service 31
Staff Medical Examinations 32
STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT—TABLES
Causes of Death in Age Groups 43
Deaths from Carcinoma of Lungs in Age Groups 39
Disinfection 57
Extracts from Vital Statistics 37
Factory Defects 50
Factory Inspections 50
General Statistics 37
Incidence of Cancer during the past 10 years 38
Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Neoplasms of the Lungs 40
Infant Deaths under 1 year in age groups 46
Infant Mortality 45
Infant Mortality Rates—England and Wales and various other
Countries 48
Infectious Diseases—Notifications in Age Groups 54
Maternal Mortality 48
Medicinal Baths—Cleansing of Verminous Persons 57
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 53
Natural Increase or Decrease of the Population during the past 20
years 38
Outworkers 51
Sanitary Inspection—Notices served and complied with 49
Summonses—Proceedings instituted 49
Tuberculosis—Notifications and deaths for the past 20 years 55
Tuberculosis—Notifications in sex and age groups 55
Unsound Food condemned 52
Vital Statistics of Whole District 41
CHARTS
Birth and Death Rates for the past 20 years 42
Number of Infant Deaths under 1 year of age during the past 20
years 47
Number of new cases of Tuberculosis notified during the past 20
years 56
Proportion of Deaths from Principal Causes 44