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 Westminster, City of]
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CONTENTS.
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Introduction v
General Statistics 1
General Provision of Health Services for the Area 2
Staff 8
Educational Establishments 11
Population 13
Births 13
Deaths 23
Infantile Mortality 24
Common Lodging-Houses 30
Tables 17-29
Communicable Diseases 31
Small-pox 31
Vaccination 31
Scarlet Fever 34
Diphtheria 34
Schick Test 35
Anti-toxin 37
Bacteriological Diagnosis 37
Enteric Fever 37
Measles 38
Influenza 38
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 39
Deaths from 39
Whooping Cough 39
Cerebro-spinal Fever 39
Poliomyelitis 39
Encephalitis Lethargica 40
Chicken-pox 40
Mumps 40
Plague, etc 40
Anthrax 40
Puerperal Fever 40
Puerperal Pyrexia 40
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 40
Bacteriological Laboratory 41
Tuberculosis 41
New eases (notified) 42
„ „ „ Tables 42-46
Deaths and non-notified deaths 46-48
Tuberculosis Dispensary 48
Dental Treatment 51
Returns (Ministry of Health table) 52, 53
Housing 54
New Schemes 54-56
Conditions generally 58
Basement dwellings 59
Re-occupation of overcrowded or insanitary dwellings 60
Table I (required by the Ministry) 61, 62
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 63
Local By-laws and Regulations 64
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