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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

Stoke Newington 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Parish of St. Mary]

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Table: TABLE OF CONTENTS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Vital Statistics—Page
Population of the Parish and of each of the two Divisions8-9
Number of people to the acre8
Births and Birth-rate9
Mortality, Death-rates and causes of Mortality,—with notes thereon9-21
The Mortuary21
Inquests held during the year21
Infectious Diseases and the Measures taken to Prevent
their spread—
The Infectious Sickness Returns for the Year22-25
Disinfection26
Hospital Isolation26-27
Return Cases27
Summer Diarrhoea27-28
Drinking Water Cisterns and Diarrhoea29
Typhoid Fever29
Measles and Whooping Cough32-34
Small-Pox34-36
Diphtheria37-39
Scarlet Fever39
How Disease is spread39-40
Notes upon Sanitary Work Performed during the Year40-41
Food and Drugs41-43
Meteorology of the Year44-45
The Parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington—(Appendix)46-48