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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
Wandsworth 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
| Inspections. | Re-inspections. | Totals. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of complaints received and attended to | 6 | .. | 6 |
| Number of premises inspected on account of:— | |||
| Puerperal Fever | 26 | 11 | 37 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 88 | 12 | 100 |
| Diarrhoea | 103 | 4 | 107 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis (1) | 2,837 | 158 | 2,995 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 657 | 21 | 678 |
| Notification of Births | 5,188 | 166 | 5,354 |
| Dressmakers' and Milliners' premises | 446 | 7 | 453 |
| Laundries— | |||
| Factory | 149 | 3 | 152 |
| Workshop | 249 | 18 | 267 |
| Workplaces | 125 | 8 | 133 |
| Other Factories | 60 | 14 | 74 |
| Other Workshops | 156 | 8 | 164 |
| Other Workplaces | 258 | 6 | 264 |
| Domestic Workshops | 77 | 7 | 84 |
| Outworkers' premises | 541 | 15 | 556 |
| Other | 615 | 2 | 617 |
| Totals | 11,581 | 460 | 12,041 |
The following Table, which is prepared from the figures given
in the summary, shows the percentage to total number of families
of those living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards, in
the separate Wards and in the whole Borough, in the premises
inspected in 1915.