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 1924
[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 9
II.—Vital Statistics.
Summary of Statistics 12
Births 13
Marriages 16
Deaths 16
Deaths of Children 1 -5 years of age 25
Infantile Mortality 27
III.—Notifiable Diseases.
Notifications 34
Deaths of Notified Cases 38
Notifications each year since 1901 39
Measles 40
Scarlet Fever 40
Diphtheria 43
Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery and Trench Fever 45
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 48
Puerperal Fever 49
Zymotic Enteritis 49
Acute Poliomyelitis 49
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 51
Encephalitis Lethargica 51
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases 52
Tuberculosis 54