London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bexley 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]
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INDEX.
ITEM PAGE
Health Committee 2
Public Health Staff 3
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Acreage 8
Population 8
Unemployment 8
Social Conditions and Amenities 8—9
Population Graph 10
Summary of Vital Statistics, 1949 11—12
Extracts from Vital Statistics—
Births and Birth Rates, etc. 12
Stillbirths and Stillbirth Rates 13
Deaths and Death Rates 14—15
Deaths and Death Rates in Wards 15
Causes of Death 16
Infantile Mortality 17
Maternal Deaths 18
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Isolation Hospital 19
General Hospitals 19
Ambulance Facilities 19
National Assistance Act, 1948 19
Public Mortuary 19
Laboratory Facilities 19
Registration of Nursing Homes 19
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BOROUGH.
Adoptive Acts and Byelaws 21—22
Water Supply 22
Drainage and Sewerage 23
Rivers and Streams 23
Chief Sanitary Inspector's Report—
Tables of Inspections and Improvements, etc. 23—25
Food Inspection 26
Tables—Factories Act, 1937 27
Closet Accommodation 28
Public Cleansing 28
Refuse Collection and Disposal 28
Salvage 28—29
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 29
Shops Acts, 1912—1936 30
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