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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
East Ham 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Sanitaey Department.
Our Sanitary Staff consists of a Medical Officer of Health,
Chief Inspector, and two Assistant Inspectors of Nuisances,
Sanitary Clerk, Dust Inspector and Disinfecting Man.
The routine work of the Department is carried on in a
very efficient and methodical manner, and a great deal of work
has been done during the year.
Summary of Statistics.
Birth-rate 36.7 per 1,000.
Death-rate 13.7 „
Zymotic Death-rate 2.6 ,,
(Signed),
A. W. BEAUMONT,
Medical Officer of Healt