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Shoreditch 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Municipal Dental Hospital 21
Ophthalmia neonatorum 16
Pneumonia 19
Population 1
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 65
Puerperal fever 13
Puerperal Pyrexia 13
Rag and Bone Dealers 23
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 24
Sanitary work 21
Scarlet fever 9
Schools, exclusions of children for infectious disease 19
Shelter 20
Slaughter-houses 30
Smallpox 9
Smoke nuisances 22
Staff 35
Street markets and food 30
Tuberculosis 14
Typhus fever 14
Veneral Diseases 19
Verminous houses 23
Water supply 21
Whooping cough 14
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables:—
For whole district during 1926 and previous years (Table I.) 39
Cases of Infectious disease notified during 1926 (Table II.) 40
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1926 (Tables III. and V.) 41, 44 to 51
Infantile mortality during 1926 (Table IV.) 42
Notes to Tables III. and IV 43
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1926 (Table VI.) 52
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table VII.) 53
Summary of Tuberculosis Certificates received (Table VIII.) 62
Summary compiled from the abstracts of their work prepared by the Sanitary
Inspectors for 1926 (Table IX.) 63
Housing Conditions 64 and 65
Summary of legal proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 65
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) 54 to 57
Return of work carried out at Tuberculosis Dispensary 58 to 61
Maternity and Child Welfare 66 to 71
Nursing List 72