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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 6
Population and Houses 6
Number of Tenements 7
Number of Foreigners 8
Estimated Population, 1913 8
Registered Births and Birth-Rates 8
Ditto Corrected 8
Mortality 8
Deaths Registered 9
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 9
Ditto outside the Borough 9
Corrected Deaths and Death-rates 10
Infantile Mortality 10
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 11
(1) Care and feeding of Infants 11
(2) Notification of Births Act, 1907 12
(3) Modified Milk for Infants 12
(4) School for Mothers 13
(5) Dinner Tickets 13
Senile Mortality 14
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases 14
Ditto ditto during 1913 and ten preceding years 15
Ditto Measles 15
Ditto Whooping Cough 16
Ditto Diarrhoea and Enteritis 16
Ditto Phthisis 16
Ditto Influenza 16
Ditto Alcoholism 17
Ditto Cancer 17
Inquests 17
The Public Mortuary 17
Infectious Diseases 17
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1913 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
Ditto Anti-Toxin 20
Enteric Fever 20
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 20
Polio-Myelitis and Encephalitis 20
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 21
Phthisis or Consumption 21
Ditto ditto Notification Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, 1911 & 1912 22
National Insurance Act, 1911—Sanatorium Benefit—Tuberculosis Dispensary 23
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in man 23
Bacteriology 24
Disinfections 24
Shelter during disinfection of houses 24
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897—New Cleansing Station 25
Housing of the Working Classes Acts 25
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, Section 17 25
Underground Sleeping Rooms 26
Erection of Dwellings for Working Classes 26
Premises closed voluntarily, demolished, rebuilt, &c. 26
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