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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 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Introductory remarks v
Census Statistics viii
Population 1
Births 2
Deaths 6-12
Infantile Mortality 12
Common Lodging-Houses 19
Tables 6-9
Communicable Diseases 21
Smallpox 21
Vaccination 24
Scarlet Fever 24
Diphtheria 24
Schick Test 24
Anti-toxin 28
Bacteriological Diagnosis 23
Typhoid Fever 28
Measles 29
Influenza 29
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 30
Deaths from 30
Whooping-Cough 30
Cerebro-spinal Fever 32
Poliomyelitis 32, 33
Encephalitis Lethargica 32
Chickenpox 32
Mumps 32
Plague 32
Anthrax 32
Puerperal Fever 32
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 34
Bacteriological Laboratory 35
Tuberculosis 35
New cases (notified) 36
,, ,, ,, Tables 36-40
Deaths and non-notified deaths, 40
Tuberculosis Dispensary 41
Dental Treatment 43
Returns (Ministry of Health table) 44
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