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 Lewisham Borough]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Vital Statistics—
Population 9
Births 12
Marriages 13
Deaths 13
,, in Wards 14
,, Ages at 15
„ Causes of 15
,, from Zymotic Diseases 15
,, Tuberculous Diseases 19
,, of Infants 21
„ in Public Institutions 22
Metropolitan Boroughs. Births.
Deaths, &c. 25
Infectious Diseases—
Notifiable Diseases 28
,, Age Periods 28
,, in Wards 30
Scarlet Fever 31
Diphtheria 31
Enteric Fever 32
Erysipelas 32
Puerperal Fever 32
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 32
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 32
Polio Myelitis 32
Attack rates in Wards 33
,, in Metropolitan
Boroughs 34
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 35
Administrative Measures re
Tuberculosis 38
Report re Proposed Dispensary 38
National Insurance Act:—
Sanatorium Benefit 46
Insurance Committees 48
Non-notifiable Diseases 50
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Infectiods Diseases—contd.
School Closure 50
Bacteriological Diagnoses 52
Sanitary Work—
Housing, Town Planning, &c.
Act 54
House-to-house Inspection 54
Combined Drainage 56
Smoke Nuisances 56
Disinfection 57
Summary of Male Inspectors'
Work 58
Summary of Female Inspectors'
Work 59
Water Certificates granted 60
Revenue Act Certificates 61
Miscellaneous—
Bakehouses 63
Cowhouses 63
Slaughterhouses 64
Unsound Food 65
Coroner's Court and Mortuary 65
Factories and Workshops-
Home Office Tables 68
Report of Public Analyst 74
Appendix—
Local Government Board Tables—
Table I.—Vital Statistics,
1912 and previous year 88
,, II.—Infectious Diseases 89
,, III.—Causes of Death 90
„ IV.—Infantile Mortality 91
Table V.—London County
Council Summary 92
,, IV.—Meteorological
Table, 1912 94