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 1923
[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. do. Visiting Sub-Committee 2
Preface 6
I.—General Statistics.
Population 9
Social Conditions of the District 10
Census, 1921—Occupations 14
II.—Vital Statistics.
Summary of Statistics 15
Births 16
Marriages 19
Deaths 19
Infantile Mortality, 1923 29
Do. 1904-1923 31
III.—Notifiable Diseases.
Notifications 39
Deaths of Notified Cases 44
Notifications each year since 1901 45
Measles 46
Scarlet Fever 46
Diphtheria 49
Do. —Three yearly incidence 50
Enteric Fever 53
Pneumonia. Malaria, Dysentery and Trench Fever 54
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 8
Puerperal Fever 59
Zymotic Enteritis 59
Acute Poliomyelitis 59
Other Notifiable Infectious Disease 60
Tuberculosis 62
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