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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 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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CONTENTS.
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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
Illegitimacy 15
Notification of Births Act, 1907 15
Deaths 17
Infantile Mortality 21
Infectious Diseases 26
Part II. —Special Subjects—
Prevention of Infant Mortality 31
Circular of Memorandum of Local Government Board of July,
1914, on Maternity and Child Welfare 31
Maternity and Child Welfare Work 33
Work Done 42
Infantile Diarrhoea 43
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 44
Puerperal Fever 47
Tuberculosis 48
Work Done 56
Treatment 57
Scarlet Fever 61
Return Cases 62
Outbreaks in Institutions 63
Diphtheria 66
Typhoid Fever 67
Anterior Polio-Myelitis 69
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 70
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 71
Measles 72
Whooping Cough 73