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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 George (Southwark) 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]
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CONTENTS.
SECTION I.—STATISTICAL
List of Officers 4
Births and Birth Rate 7
Deaths and Death Rate for 1898 8
Death Rate per 1000 for 1898 9
Zymotic or Preventable Death Rate 10
Zymotic Disease Mortality 11
Diarrhœa 11
Measles 12
Diphtheria Mortality 13
Respiratory Diseases 14
Mortality of Infants and Children 15
Diseases Causing Infant Mortality 15
Table of Deaths during 1898 17
Table of Population, Births, and New Cases 18
SECTION II.— GENEBAL:-
The Salvation Army Shelter 19
Public Lavatory Accommodation 19
Alcohol 19
Complaint of Nuisance arising fron\ Burial Vaults beneath the Parish Church 20
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 20
Factory and Workshops Act, 1891 20
Factory and Workshops Act, 1895 21
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 21
Summary 22
Bakehouses under the New (1895) Act 22
Notification of Infectious Diseases 22
Typhus Fever 28
Boom Disinfection 23
Reception House 23
House to House Inspection 24
Houses Let in Lodgings 24
Falcon Court and Neighbourhood 24