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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 1915

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

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CONTENTS.
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Public Health Committee 6
Introduction 7
Part I.—General Statistics—
Population 9
Marriages 9
Births 10
Illegitimacy 11
Notification of Births Act, 1907 11
Deaths 13
Mortality of Soldiers and Sailors 17
Infantile Mortality 17
Infectious Diseases 20
Part II.—Special Subjects—
Maternity and Infant Welfare 24
Expectant Mothers 24
Work Done 24
Voluntary Institutions 25
Infantile Diarrhœa 27
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 27
Puerperal Fever 28
Tuberculosis 29
Work Done 35
Treatment of Tuberculosis 36
Scarlet Fever 37
Diphtheria 39
Typhoid Fever 41
Anterior Polio-Myelitis 42
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 43
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 48