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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Names of Members of Public Health Committee 2
Names of Members of Sanitary Staff 2
Summary of Statistics 4
Preface 10
Part I.—Statistics.
Population—New Houses 12
Births 16
Marriages 18
Deaths—Woolwich Death Rate compared with other Boroughs 19
Lives and Illness saved 23
Infant Mortality—Preventive Measures 23
Still-births 25
Mortality under five years 25
Zymotic Death Rate 26
Inquests and Uncertified Deaths 26
Deaths in Public Institutions 27
Small-Pox and Vaccination 27
Measles 28
Whooping Cough 29
Scarlet Fever—Expense of unnecessary Hospital Isolation—
Return Cases—Isolation at Home—Sources of Infection—
Provision of Medical Attendance 30
Diphtheria—Sources of Infection 35
Bacteriological Examination 38
Enteric Fever—Source of Infection 40
Diarrhoea—Notification Statistics Erysipelas 55
Puerperal Fever 55