Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924.

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
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[1925]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. Page Summary of Statistics, &c 7 Natural and Social Conditions of the District. Population 7 Marriages 8 Births 8 Deaths 8 Deaths of Infants 10 Summer Diarrhoea 10 Deaths of Illegitimate Infants 10 Deaths of Aged Persons 11 Deaths in Institutions 12 Deaths (Various Causes—Table II.) 14 Table—Whole of London—Comparison 15 Sanitary Circumstances. Closet Accommodation16 Scavenging 16 Cesspools 16 Sanitary Inspection of District 16 Summonses 17 Factories and Workshops—Inspection of 19 Customs and Inland Revenue 22 House to House 22 Houses Let in Lodgings 22 Rat and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 22 Smoke Abatement 23 Controlled Premises and ccupations 23 Ice Cream Vendors 23 Schools 24 Food. Milk Supply 24 Preservatives and Colouring Matters in Food 25 Certification of Food—Export to Canada 27 Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 and 1917 28 Milk (Mothers aud Children) Orders 29 Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 29 Meat—Slaughterhouses 34 public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 34 Markets 43 Bakehouses 44 Unsound Food 46 Food Surrendered 46 Prevalence and Control over Infectious Diseases. Infectious Diseases 46 Zymotic Diseases 47 rimallpox 48 Cholera 48 Plague 48 Diphtheria and Diphtheritic Membraneous Croup 48 Anti-toxin 48 Chart—Diphtheria. Chart—Scarlet Fever 49-50 Scarlet Fever 51 Enteric Fever 51 Erysipelas 61 Typhus Fever 51 Relapsing Fever 51 Continued Fever 51 Puerperal Fever 51 Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 51 Acute Polio-myelitis 51 Encephalitis Lethargies 52