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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
Introduction 12
Part I.—Statistics.
Population 23
Census Tables, Quinquennial Age Groups 26
Houses 27
Births 27
Marriages30
Deaths—Woolwich Death Rate compared with other Boroughs 30
Infant Mortality—Preventive Measures 35
Still-births 37
Mortality under five years 37
Zymotic Death Rate 38
Inquests and Uncertified Deaths 38
Deaths in Public Institutions 39
Notification of Diseases 39
Smallpox 41
Measles 41
Whooping-Cough 44
Scarlet Fever—Deaths—Hospital Isolation—Return Cases—
Isolation at Home—Sources of Infection—Schools Incidence
45
Diphtheria—School Outbreaks and Precautions taken 48
Mistaken Diagnosis 50
Source of Infection 50
Bacteriological Examination 50
Enteric Fever—Source of Infection 51
Bacteriological Diagnosis 56
Diarrhoea or Zymotic Enteritis—Notification—Statistics —
Tables 56
Erysipelas 63
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 63
Anterior Polio-Myelitis 63
Puerperal Fever 64