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
St Olave 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Olave]
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CONTENTS.
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Vital Statistics 3
Population, Houses, Over-crowding 3
Births and Birth-rate 4
Deaths and Death-rate 4
Causes of Death 6
Zymotic Diseases and Rates 7
Small Pox 7
Neglect of Vaccination 7
Enormous advantages of Vaccination 8
Scarlet Fever 10
Insufficient Accommodation at Metropolitan Asylums
Board Hospital 11
Diphtheria 11
Antitoxic Serum Treatment 12
Enteric or Typhoid Fever 13
Measles 14
Report on the Notification of Measles 15
Whooping Cough 16
Diarrhœa 16, 34
Notifications 17
Disinfection19
Shelter, or House Accommodation 19
Anthrax, or Malignant Pustule 20, 32
Phthisis and Diseases of the Respiratory Organs 20
Royal Commission on Tuberculosis 22
Inquests 23
Mortuary 23
Meteorological 24
Bakehouses 25, 31
Housing of the Working Classes 5
Sanitary Work 26
House to House Inspection 26
Collection of House Refuse 27
Foods unfit for Human Consumption 28
Sale of Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts 28
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, Bakehouses 29
Water Supply 34