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Poplar 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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CONTENTS.
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Public Health and Housing Committee v.
Public Health Department vi.
Summary of Vital Statistics viii.
Population 1
Births 2
Birth Bate 4
Illegitimate Births 5
Marriages 6
Marriage Bate 6
Deaths 6
Death Bate 8
Zymotic Diseases 9, 48
Respiratory Diseases 10, 48
Infantile Mortality 11
Table of Classification of Infantile Mortality 41, 42, 43, 44
National Conference on Infantile Mortality 11
Infantile Life Protection Act, 1897, and Bill, 1907 15
Age Mortality 17
Tubercular Diseases 18, 48
Phthisis 20
Prevention of Consumption 20
Compulsory Notification of Phthisis 22
Administrative Control of Pulmonary Phthisis 24
Sanatorium Question—Local Government Board's Decision 25
Tables of Deaths 28, 34, 46, 47, 48
Tables of Deaths (Classification) 36, 44
Tables of Deaths in Public Institutions and Certain Localities 40, 49-51
Tables of Infectious Diseases 52, 53
Zymotic Diseases, Notifications, Institutions, Errors in Diagnosis, Bacteriological
Examinations, Infectious Diseases in Milkshops and Homeworkors' Premises 54
Alphabetical List of Infectious Diseases 61
Metropolitan Ambulance Service 68
Disinfecting Department 69
Manufacture and Supply of Electrolytic Disinfectant. Balance Sheet. Stability
of Fluid. Germicidal and Antiseptic Properties 70
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897, and Cleansing of Verminous Children, proposed
Bill 77
Notices from Port Sanitary Authorities 79
Anthrax (Wool Sorters' Diseases) 81
Puerperal Fever 81
Small-pox 82
Vaccination 83
8carlet Fever 84
"Return Cases" of Scarlet Fever 85
Continued and Typhus Fevers 87
Typhoid Fever 88
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) School Certificates and Bacteriological
Examinations 91
Whooping Cough 98
Influenza 99
Measles—London County Council Regulations respecting Exclusion of Children
from School: Closure of Class Booms : Infectious Diseases, Hospitals and
Isolations 99
Cerebro-Spinal Fever ("Spotted Fever") 102
Diarrhœa and Enteritis 102
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 104
Mortuaries 105
Model Dwellings—Grosvenor, Hanbury and County Council Buildings 105
Common Lodging Houses 108
Seamen's Lodging Houses 108