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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
Finchley 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Vital Statistics— page.
Population of the District and each of the Suli-
Districts 7
Number of People to the Acre 8
Births and Birth-rate 8
Mortality, Death-rates, and Causes of Mortality 9—23
Infant Mortality 11—12
Infectious Diseases and Measures taken to Prevent
their Spread 24— 8
Scarlet Fever 29
Diphtheria 29
Typhoid or Enteric 29
Measles and Whooping Cough 29
Bacteriological Diagnosis 30
Cancer 30
Consumption (Phthisis) 31—36
The Sanitary Authority as the Education Authority 36— 9
Meteorology of the Year 39-42
Sanitary Work Performed During the Year 43
The Factory and Workshops Act, 1901 44-45
The Revenue Act of 1903 40
Underground Bakehouses 40
Cremation 47
The Midwives' Act of 1902 47- 49