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 Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page.
Natural and social conditions of the area 6
Physical features and general character of the area 6
Vital statistics 6
General provision of health services 7
Clinics and treatment centres 7-8
Public Health officers 8-9
Nursing, chemical work, Acts and Byelaws 9
Population, Births, Deaths and Infantile Mortality 10-13
Births and birth-rates for the last 30 years 11-12
Infantile mortality and zymotic rate 13
Deaths and death-rates for the last 30 years 14-15
Death-rates for the various wards for the last 15 years 16
Deaths occurring in public institutions in the Borough 17
Births and deaths registered in the sub-districts of the Borough 18
Principal causes of and ages at death during the year 19
Deaths of infants under one year of age during the last 30 years 20
Infantile mortality (under one year) for the Borough 21
Vital statistics for separate localities (wards) 22-23
Deaths from principal zymotic diseases in the wards 24
Zymotic mortality, showing the localities where the deaths occurred 25
London and the Metropolitan Boroughs birth and death-rates and infantile
mortality rates 26
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 27
Sanitary work 27-28
Inspections and re-inspections (Housing Acts) 29
Do. do. (Public Health Act) 30-31
Sanitary works completed Do. 32-33
Do. do. (Housing Acts) 34-35
Proceedings taken under the Public Health and other Acts, with results 36-39
Smoke abatement and black smoke 40
Houses let in lodgings 40
Factories, workshops, &c., and outworkers 41-43
Bats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 44
Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890 45
Certificates for exemption (Housing, Town Planning, Act, 1909) 45
Water Supply—Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Section 48) 45