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 Parish of St. Mary]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Vital Statistics— | Page |
Population of the Parish and of each of the two Divisions | 8-9 |
Number of people to the acre | 8 |
Births and Birth-rate | 9 |
Mortality, Death-rates and causes of Mortality,—with notes thereon | 9-21 |
The Mortuary | 21 |
Inquests held during the year | 21 |
Infectious Diseases and the Measures taken to Prevent | |
their spread— | |
The Infectious Sickness Returns for the Year | 22-25 |
Disinfection | 26 |
Hospital Isolation | 26-27 |
Return Cases | 27 |
Summer Diarrhoea | 27-28 |
Drinking Water Cisterns and Diarrhoea | 29 |
Typhoid Fever | 29 |
Measles and Whooping Cough | 32-34 |
Small-Pox | 34-36 |
Diphtheria | 37-39 |
Scarlet Fever | 39 |
How Disease is spread | 39-40 |
Notes upon Sanitary Work Performed during the Year | 40-41 |
Food and Drugs | 41-43 |
Meteorology of the Year | 44-45 |
The Parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington—(Appendix) | 46-48 |