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Holborn 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]

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CONTENTS.
Page.
Introduction 5
Population and Houses 7
Estimated Population, 1912 7
Registered Births and Birth-Kates 7
Ditto Corrected 7
Mortality 8
Deaths Registered 8
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 8
Ditto outside the Borough 8
Corrected deaths and death-rates 9
Infantile Mortality 9
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 10
(1) Care and feeding of Infants 10
(2) Notification of Births Act, 1907 11
(3) Modified Milk for Infants 11
(4) Baby Show 11
(5) Dinner Tickets 12
Senile Mortality 13
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases 13
Ditto ditto during 1912 and ten preceding year 14
Ditto Measles 14
Ditto Whooping Cough 15
Ditto Diarrhoea and Enteritis 16
Ditto Phthisis 16
Ditto Influenza 16
Ditto Alcoholism 16
Ditto Cancer 16
Sudden and Violent Deaths 16
Inquests 16
The Public Mortuary 17
Infectious Diseases 17
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1912 and ten preceding years 18
Small Pox 19
Scarlet Fever 19
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 19
Ditto Secondary Cases 19
Ditto Return Cases 19
Diphtheria 19
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 20
Ditto Secondary and Return Cases 20
Enteric Fever 20
Cerebro Spinel Fever 20
Polio-Myelitis and Encephalitis 21
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 21
Phthisis or Consumption 21
Ditto ditto Notification Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908 & 1911 22
Ditto ditto ditto ditto 1912 23
National Insurance Act, 1911—Sanatorium Benefit 23
Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis 23
Tuberculosis Dispensary 25
Holborn Provisional Insurance Committee 26
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in man 27
Bacteriology 27
Disinfections 27
Shelter during disinfection of houses 28
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 28
Housing, Town Planning, etc. Act, 1909 29
Underground Sleeping Rooms 31
Certificate under Section 35 31
Premises closed voluntarily, demolished, rebuilt, etc. 31
Sanitary Work 34
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