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Shoreditch 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Milk premises, cowsheds, etc., on register 46
Mortuary 31
Notification of Births Act 3
Offensive business 46
Ophthalmia neonatorum 27
Outworkers 48
Polio-myelitis 29
Population 1
Puerperal fever 23
Rag Flock Act, 1911 46
Return cases 15
Sanitary work 32
Scarlet fever 17
Scarlet fever, return cases of 15
Schools, exclusions of children for infectious disease 31
Shelter 31
Sickness amongst the poor 11
Slaughter-houses 45
Small-pox 16
Smoke nuisance 35
Staff 56
Street markets and food 51
Tuberculosis 26
Typhus fever 26
Vaccination 16
Verminous houses 35
Violence, mortality from 9
Water supply 32
Whooping cough 25
Workshops on register 46
Zymotic diseases, deaths from 12
Zymotic death rate 12
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables :—
For whole district during 1913 and previous years (Table I.) 59
Oases of Infectious disease notified during 1913 (Table II.) 60
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1913 (Tables III. and V.) 61, 64 to 71
Infantile mortality during 1913 (Table IV.) 62
Notes to Table III. 63
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1913 (Table VI.) 72
Cases treated by District Medical Officer in 1913 (Table VII.) 73
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table VIII.) 74
Summary of Tuberculosis Certificates received (Table IX.) 75
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) 76 to 79
Milk and Cream Regulations -Report 80
Housing, Town Planning, &c:, Act, 1909, Regulations 81 to 83
Report on tuberculosis dispensary 84 to 88
Report of Health Visitors 89 to 97