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 Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Vital Statistics—
page
Population of the Parish and of each of the two Divisions 7—8
Number of people to the acre 8
Births and Birth-rate 8
Mortality, Death-rates and causes of Mortality,—with notes
thereon 8—19
The Mortuary 19
Inquests held during the year 20
Infectious Diseases and the Measures taken to Prevent
their spread—
The Infectious Sickness Returns for the Year 20—24
Disinfection 25
Hospital Isolation 25 —27
Consumption 27—28
Typhoid Fever 28
Diphtheria 28—30
Small-Pox and Vaccination 30—32
Measles 32
Plague 33
Scarlet Fever and "Return Cases" 33—34
The Spread of Infection in Schools 35—37
Notes upon Sanitary Work Performed during the Year 37—38
The Housing of the Poor 39—43
Sanitary Legislation in 1900 43
Food and Drugs 44—49
Arsenic in Beer 49
Meteorology of the Year 49—51
Streets in the Borough of St. Mary, Stoke Newington-(Appendix) 52—53