Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Shelter 35
Sickness amongst the poor 7
Slaughterhouses 43
Smallpox 16
Smoke nuisance 43
Street markets and food 50
Swine, keeping of 38
Tuberculosis 31
Vaccination returns 19
Violence, mortality from 6
Water supply 36
Whooping cough 30
Workshops—summary of principal trades carried on 45
Workshops on register 45
Zymotic diseases, deaths from 9
Zymotic, death rate 9
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables :—
For whole district during 1904 and previous years (Table I.) 58
For separate localities in 1904 and previous years (Table II.) 59
Cases of infectious disease notified during 1904 (Table III.) 60
Causes of, and ages, at death during year 1904 (Tables IV. and V.) 61,62
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1904
(Table VI.) 68
Cases treated by the District Medical Officer in 1904 (Table VII.) 69
Summary of proceedings under the Public Health (Lond.) Act, 1891
(Table VIII.) 70
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables I., II. and III.) 71
Summary of return cases of scarlet fever, 1893-1904 73