London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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CONTENTS.
PART I.
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Population 3
Houses 13
Births 24
Deaths 25
Tubercular Disease 17, 38
Infectious Diseases 46
Smallpox 49
Scarlet Fever 5 1
Diphtheria 52
Typhoid Fever 54, 104
Plague 58
Diarrhœal Diseases 59
Measles 60
Whooping Cough 65
Schools and Infectious Disease 65
Disinfection 66
Mortuaries 69
Cleansing of Persons 70
PART II.
Staff 71
Inspection of Houses 73
Underground Dwellings 73
Houses let in Lodgings 73
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 74
Housing of the Working Classes—
Adoption of Part III 21,74
Clare Market Scheme 74
Turner's Court 74
Tenement Dwellings 76
Healthiness of Block Dwellings 76
Common Lodging Houses 78
Workshops 78
Out-workers 82
Bakehouses 84
Dairies, Cowhouses 84
Slaughterhouses, Offensive Trades 85
Stables 85
Smoke Prevention 86
Water Supply 86,104
Water Companies' Regulations 87
Sale of Food and Drugs 87
Appendix I.—Report of Chief Sanitary Inspector 88
„ II.—Water Supply and Typhoid Fever 104