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 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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III.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Introductory Remarks v
Census Statistics x
Meteorological 1
Population 1
Births 2
Deaths 7-15
Infantile Mortality 15
Common Lodging-Houses 21
Tables 7-20
Communicable Diseases 23
Smallpox 23
Vaccination 23
Scarlet Fever 26
Diphtheria 26
Schick Test 27
Anti-toxin 30
Bacteriological Diagnosis 30
Typhoid Fever 31
Measles 33
Influenza 33
Diarrhœa and Enteritis 33
Deaths from 34
Whooping-Cough 34
Cerebro-spinal Fever 36
Poliomyelitis 36
Encephalitis Lethargica 36
Chickenpox 36
Mumps 36
Plague 36
Anthrax 36
Puerperal Fever 36
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 37
Bacteriological Laboratory 37
Tuberculosis 38
New cases (notified) 38
,, ,, ,, Tables 38-43
Deaths and non-notified deaths 43—15
Tuberculosis Dispensary 45
Dental Treatment 47
Returns (Ministry of Health table) 48
Housing 50
New Schemes, etc. 50-54
Conditions generally 54-57
Register of Houses let in lodgings 57
Underground Bedrooms 57
Restriction of Rent Acts 57
Table I (Required by Ministry) 58
(9616)q a 2