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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

St Pancras 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Map of St. Pancras, showing the Registration Sub-Districts 6
Public Health Committee 7
Staff of Public Health Department 8
Introduction 10
Part I.— General Statistics—
Population 13
Marriages 13
Births 14
Notification of Births Act, 1909 15
Deaths 16
Infantile Mortality 19
Infectious Diseases 23
Part II.— Special Subjects—
Prevention of Infant Mortality 27
Infant Consultations 28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 30
Puerperal Fever 32
Tuberculosis 32
Work Done 40
Treatment 41
Letter from Local Government Board re Treatment in London 42
After Care 50
Scarlet Fever 52
Return Cases 53
Diphtheria 54
Outbreak at Foundling Hospital 55
Typhoid Fever 56
Anterior Polio-Myelitis 58
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 60
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 61
Measles 61
Whooping Cough 62
Diarrhcea and Enteritis 62
Syphilis 63
Alcoholism 64