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 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.
List of Boundary Streets and Roads ix.
Vital Statistics 1
Population 1
Births 2
Birth Rate 5
Illegitimate Births 5
Marriages 6
Marriage Rate 6
Deaths 7
Deaths of Illegitimate Children 7
Death Rate 9
Zymotic Diseases, Death Rate 10
Respiratory Diseases, Death Rate 11
Infantile Mortality 12
Poplar Health Visiting Association 12
Notification of Births Act, 1907 18
Discrepancies in the Registration of Births 13
The Appointment of the Health Visitor 18
Working Class Women Bill 18
Midwives (No. 2) Bill (H.L.) 14
Compulsory Notification of Ophthalmia Neonatorum 19
Resources of the Borough for obtaining Information desired Respecting
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 27
Correspondence with the London County Council Respecting Compulsory
Notification of Ophthalmia Neonatorum 29
Age Mortality 34
Tubercular Diseases 35
Phthisis 37
Prevention of Consumption 88
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908 38
Total Number cf Notifications under Tuberculosis Regulations 39
Poor Law Institutions inside and outside Borough 39
Total Number of Poor Persons Notified under Tuberculosis Regulations 40
Disinfection of Rooms and Articles (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) 40
Streets with which Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Poor Persons) were
Connected 40
Conference—Provision of Sanatorium Accommodation 42
Maintenance of Beds for Consumptive Cases 43
London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1910, Part VI. 45
Milk and Dairies Bill, 1910 45
Tables of Deaths 46,47,48
Deaths from Drowning, etc 49
Deaths of Persons of Unknown Addresses, included in the Mortality
Statistics 49