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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 1898
[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 7
Number of people to the acre 7-8
Births and Birth-rate 8
Mortality, Death-rates and causes of Mortality,—with notes
thereon 8-18
The Mortuary 19
Inquests held during the year 19
Infectious Diseases and the Measures taken to Prevent
their spread—
The Infectious Sickness Returns for the Year 20-23
Disinfection 24
Hospital Isolation 24-25
Tuberculosis 25-29
Summer Diarrhœa 29-30
Measles and Whooping Cough 30-31
Typhoid Fever 31
Small-Pox and Vaccination 31-33
Diphtheria 33-36
Scarlet Fever 36
Notes upon Sanitary Work Performed during the Year 36-37
Food and Drugs 37-41
Meteorology of the Year 41- 43
The Parish of St Mary, Stoke Newington—(Appendix) 44-46