London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Public Health and Housing Committee 2
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 2
do. Visiting Sub-Committee 2
Preface 6
I.—General Statistics.
Population 8
Census, 1921 9
II.—Vital Statistics.
Summary of Statistics 14
Births 15
Marriages 17
Deaths 18
Infantile Mortality 27
Deaths in Public Institutions 31
III.—Notifiable Diseases.
Notifications 32
Deaths of Notified Cases 36
Notifications each year since 1901 37
Measles 38
Scarlet Fever 39
Diphtheria 40
Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery and Trench Fever 42
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 44
Puerperal Fever 45
Zymotic Enteritis 45
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 45
Tuberculosis 46
IV.—Causes op Sickness.
Reports of Medical Practitioners 56
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