Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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New Houses 106
Council's Housing Schemes 107
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts 107
Tents and Vans 107
Houses Let in Lodgings 108
Common Lodging Houses 108
VII.— PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
General Reference 109
Notifications and Deaths 110
Diphtheria 115
Scarlet Fever 116
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 118
Erysipelas 118
Malaria 118
Enteric Fever 118
Dysentery 119
Anterior Poliomyelitis 119
Encephalitis Lethargica 120
Smallpox 120
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 120
Whooping Cough 120
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 121
Zymotic Enteritis 122
Measles 122
Pneumonia 122
Tuberculosis 123
Arrangements for Disinfection and Disinfestation 137
VIII.— GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area 139
Population 139
Inhabited Houses 140
Rateable Value, etc. 140
Physical Features of the Area 140
Social Conditions 140
Sickness and Invalidity 140
XI.— VITAL STATISTICS.
Annual Statistics (including those of Wards) 141
Births 143
Marriages 145
Deaths 145
Deaths from Cancer l51
Maternal Mortality 152
Child Mortality 152
Infant Mortality 153
APPENDIX.
Meteorological Table 157