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Lewisham 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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CONTENTS.
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Accidents, deaths due to 38
Bacterioscopic Examinations 78
Births 17
,, illegitimate 18 !
,, registration of 33
Birth Rates 17
Butter, house-to-house sale 110
„ colouring matter 110
„ samples submitted 110
Cancer, deaths from 37
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 77
Circulatory diseases, deaths from 37
Combined drainage 89
Constitutional diseases, deaths
from 38
Customs and Inland Revenue
Acts, houses examined 90
Deaths, ages at 22
,, causes of 47
„ effects of season 23
,, in disease groups 35
Death rate, all causes 20
,, comparison with
other boroughs 45 & 46
,, in wards and divisions 42
,, zymotic 34
Diarrhoea epidemic, deaths from 36
,, leaflet on 131
Digestive diseases, deaths from 38
Diphtheria, deaths from 35
,, notification of 66
Disinfection 93
Enteric fever, deaths from 36
,, notification of 67
Factory and workshop inspection 108
Food analysis, samples submitted
107
., storage of, in home 33
,, preservatives in 112
,, supply, warranty clauses 111
,, unsound 86
Houses let in lodgings 88
House-to-house inspection 86
Houses unfit for human habitation 88
Gipsy encampments 89
Infant life protection 31
,, feeding pamphlet 133
,, mortality 24-34
., ,, causes of 25 & 129
„ „ combative
measuresadopted 29
,, ,, street incidence 28
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Infectious disease—
Age period in relation to 52 & 57
Attack rates 58 & 60
Bathing of children ... 76
Notification of 57
Notification by school
teachers 75
School closure on account of 71
Legal proceedings 94
Marriage rate 20
Measles 35 & 71
Mid wives and puerperal fever 67
Milk, additional powers required 113
analysis of 108
dirty 110
,, dried 111
,, dyed 110
samples on delivery 108
,, Sunday samples 108
,, supply, infected 83
,, warranty clauses 1ll
Nervous diseases, deaths from 37
Phthisis, deaths from 36 & 37
Population 16
Public-house urinals 93
Public mortuary 93
Puerperal fever 67
Respiratory diseases, deaths
from 38
Rainfall 53
Scarlet fever, deaths from 35
,, ,, exposure of a
patient 76
,, ,, notification of 65
Schools, registration of private 85
Small-Pox, deaths from 35
,, outbreak of 61
,, cholera and plague
contacts 77
Smoke nuisance 92
Still births 26
Test samples 107
Underground bakehouse 92
Vital statistics, epitome of 3
Water certificates 91
,, supply in tenement
houses 92
Whooping cough 35&71
Women sanitary inspectors'
work 101
Workshops 96
,, domestic 96