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 Kensington]
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Metropolitan Asylums Board, Views of the Sanitary Authorities and
of the Vestry in respect of a Central Authority for providing
Hospitals for the Infectious Siek 71
Hospitals for Infectious Diseases, Views of the Medical Officer on 72
Free Hospitals for Infectious Diseases, ,, ,, 73
Central Hospital Authority, ,, ,, 74
Depauperisation of Relief in Infectious Hospitals ,, 75
Notification of Infectious Disease, Voluntary 76
,, ,, Compulsory: A Retrospect 77
,, ,, Communication from the County
Council 79
Compulsory Removal to Hospital of the Infectious Sick, being
without proper lodging or accommodation 79
Hospitals Commission on Infectious Disease Hospitals (1882): Resume
of its recommendations; and the extent to which they have been
carried out in practice 80
Public Health Legislation 81
A Retrospect ; 1856-1888: The Frails of Sanitation 84
Population of Sub-Districts, Number of Inhabited Houses, &c 87
,, Relative Numbers of Males and Females; at different
ages ; in Parish, and in Sub-Districts, in 1881 (Tables) 88
Marriac.es and Marriage Rate 89
Births and Birth Rate 89
Deaths and Death Rate 90
Infantile Mortality 91
,, „ Among Illegitimate Children 91
Senile Mortality 92
J>hath Rate at Different Age-Periods (Table) 92
,, Mean Temperature, etc., Monthly 93
Death, Summary of causes of (Table) 94
Death, Assigned Causes of 95
,, ,, Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 95
„ ,, „ Venereal Diseases 96
,, ,, ,, Puerperal Fever 96
„ Parasitic Diseases 97
,, Dietetic Diseases 97
,, „ „ Alcoholism 97
,, Constitutional Diseases 97
„ ,, „ Cancer 98
,, ,, ,, Tubercular 99
,, Developmental Diseases 101