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Walthamstow 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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INDEX.
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Natural and Social Conditions of the District 12
Hospitals and Poor Law Relief 14
Vital Statistics 18
Sanitary Circumstances of District 55
Food 57
Notifiable Diseases 30
Maternity and Child Welfare 46
Sanitary Administration 58
Housing 68
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Summary of Annual Report, 1920 10
Physical Features 12
Drainage 12
Character of Population 13
Hospitals and Poor Law Relief 14
Population 17
of Wards 20
Births 19
Rate 19-24
InWards 20
Deaths 21
Rate 21
Outer Zone of London 21
In Wards 22
Inquests 23
Zymotic Death-rate & Mortality 24, 27
Infantile Mortality Rate 24
Infantile Mortality 25
Senile Mortality 26
Infectious & Other Diseases-
Infectious Diseases, deaths from 29
,, ,, prevalence
and control over 30
Infectious Diseases, Sickness
Rate, etc. 32
Bacteriological Work 33
Small Pox 33
Scarlet Fever 34
Diphtheria and Membranous
Croup 37
Table of Drainage Defects found
in relation to Infect. Diseases 40
Infectious Diseases, No. notified
and No. removed to Hospital 30a
Typhoid Fever 42
Puerperal Fever 50
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 51
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Infectious & Other DiSEASEs(contd.)—
Measles and Whooping Cough 51
Encephalitis Lelhargica 51
Phthisis or Consumption 54
Isolation Hospital-
Accommodation 41
Table showing No. of Admissions,
Discharges and Deaths 43
Diphtheria 44
Scarlet Fever 44
Sanitary Administration of
District 58
Housing of the Working Classes 68
Water Supply 55
Milk Supply 57
Slaughterhouses 56
House Refuse, Removal and
Scavenging 56
Sewage Disposal 12
Elementary Schools 56
Factory & Workshop Act, 1901 64
No. of Improvements Effected 60
House-to-House Inspection 59
Disinfection of Houses, Clothing,
etc. 61
Dampness in Houses 61
Overcrowding 68
Bakehouses 61
Slaughterhouses and Butchers'
Shops 61
Fishmongers 61
Coffee Houses 61
Ice Cream Vendors 61
Cowsheds and Milkshops 61
Stable Premises 61
Laundries 61
List of Unsound Food Destroyed 63