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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 3
Summary of Statistics 4
Preface 10
Part I.—Statistics.
Population 12
Census Tables, Quinquennial Age Groups 13
Houses 19
Births 20
Marriages 23
Deaths—Woolwich Death Rate compared with other Boroughs 23
Lives and Illness Saved 27
Infant Mortality—Preventive Measures 28
Still-births 29
Mortality under five years 30
Zymotic Death Rate 30
Inquests and Uncertified Deaths 31
Deaths in Public Institutions 32
Notification of Diseases 32
Small-pox 34
Chicken-pox 35
Measles 35
Whooping-Cough 38
Scarlet Fever—Deaths—Hospital Isolation—Return Cases—
Isolation at Home—Sources of Infection—Schools Incidence
40
Diphtheria—School Outbreaks and Precautions taken 43
Mistaken Diagnosis 46
Source of Infection 46
Bacteriological Examination 46
Enteric Fever—Source of Infection 47
Bacteriological Diagnosis 48
Diarrhoea or Zymotic Enteritis—Notification—Statistics-
Tables 49
Erysipelas 56
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 56
Anterior Polio-Myelitis 56