Annual Reports of Medical Officer of Health Glasgow 1905-1906
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE1/1/6/3
- Dates of Creation:1905 - 1907
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:1 volume Volume
Scope and Content
Annual reports 1905 and 1906. Content includes sections on: meteorological observations; summary of statistical features of year; population; marriages; births; deaths; infantile mortality; infectious diseases; principal zymotic diseases; smallpox; diphtheria and membranous croup; enteric fever; typhus fever; scarlet fever; measles; whooping cough; diarrhoeal diseases; tuberculous diseases; memorandum on results of enquiry into certain cases of phthisis 1905; respiratory diseases including croup; cholera; puerperal fever; erysipelas; uncertified deaths; insurance of lives in in friendly societies; food poisoning; rabies; anthrax; glanders; Bacteriological Laboratory; meat inspection; Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order 1899; Hospitals and reception houses; removal by public conveyance of bodies of persons dead of infectious disease; interments in closed burying grounds; Fresh-Air Fortnight; Port Local Authority; housing accommodation of the labouring classes and proceedings under the Housing of the Working Classes Act; farmed-out houses; houses let in lodgings; offensive trades; Factory and Workshop Act 1901; bakehouses; infants' milk depot; and insanitary areas.
Annotated and with inserted pages not included in the loose items: notes on diphtheria (p64); statement of results of representations under Housing of the Working Classes Act as at 31st December 1906 (p162); request of clarification to Medical officer of Health, Huddersfield on his figures for the reduction in infant mortality (P34); notes on figures for measles cases and number of empty wards at Ruchill (p98); handwritten tables on tuberculosis cases (p100). Envelope attached to the rear cover with question from Councillor Jamieson on the deaths due to the consumption of sterilised milk and the Medical Officer of Health's reply.
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