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
Whitechapel 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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| I & J–(Continued.) | Date of Reports. | Page of Reports. |
|---|---|---|
| Indecent occupation of rooma and overcrowding, difficulties in preventing the same | March,1862 | 5 |
| June, 1863 | 7 | |
| April, 1864 | 8 | |
| Dec. 1866 | 4 | |
| „ 1867 | 8 | |
| April, 1870 | 8 & 9 | |
| Indictment against two sugar refiners for nuisance occasioned by the re-burning of animal charcoal | June, 1857 | 5 |
| Jan. 1858 | 12 | |
| Indifference of journeyman bakers and others to the state of their health | Sept. 1872 | 14 & 15 |
| „ on the part of the public to the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act (Torrens' Act) | March, „ | 12 |
| Indiscriminate sale of poisons | June, 1857 | 4 |
| Indisposition produced by the vitiated air of crowded rooms | Dec. 1856 | 9 |
| Infant schools, overcrowded | Sept. 1857 | 8 |
| „ 1863 | 7 | |
| Infantile mortality, when excessive, does not materially tend to lessen the amount of population, the deaths of unweaned children being speedily followed by new creations | Oct. 1856 | 8 |
| „ mortality very great | Sept. 1861 | 5 |
| ,, „ in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital reduced from 17.0 per cent, to 1.7 per cent, after improved ventilation | „ „ | „ |
| Infants neglected by mothers, death of | June, 1862 | „ |
| Infanticide | Oct. 1858 | „ |
| „ indirect | „ 1859 | 4 |
| Infectious diseases, compulsory intimation of | Sept. 1877 | 10, 11 & 12 |
| „ and contagious diseases in common lodging houses, Report of Chiof Commissioner of Police thereon, and Mr. Vallance's letter | July, 1876 | 7 |
| Sept. ,, | 11 | |
| June, 1877 | 10 | |
| Sept. „ | 18 | |
| Information respecting sanitary laws is required to be given to poor people | July, 1851 | 9 |
| Influenza prevalent | Jan. 1870 | 8 |
| „ prevalence of, in 1847 | March, 1877 | 13 |
| In investigating cases of small-pox with a view of tracing,from person to person, the links of contagion, the period of incubation must be borne in mind | Dec. 1878 | 9 |
| Inhabitants, number of to a square yard | Jan. 1874 | 17 |
| Inkhorn Court | Oct. 1859 | 6 & 7 |
| Dec. „ | 8 & 9 | |
| Oct. 1864 | 5 & 7 | |
| April, 1870 | 8 | |
| „ condition of, attention of the Metropolitan Board called to same | Oct. 1859 | 6 & 7 |
| Dec. „ | 8 & 9 | |
| „ dimensions of | Oct. 1864 | 5 |
| Inquest held on the body of a child four years old who died from small-pox | March,1878 | 9 |
| „ „ ,, „ who died in a cellar in Steward St., Old Artillery Ground | Dec. 1877 | 14 |
| „ ,, „ ,, who died of small- pox | Sept. 1863 | 8 |