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Holborn 1910

Report for the year 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health

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St. Giles and Bloomsbury.
*2 Bloomsbury Court.
10 Bury Street.
*164 Drury Lane.
155 High Holborn.
217 & 218 High Holborn (Holborn
Restaurant).
63 High Street.
19 Little Earl Street.
5 Little St. Andrew Street.
21 Marchmont Street.
77 Marchmont Street.
8 Museum Street.
200 Shaftesbury Avenue.
*15 Torrington Place.
Holborn.
158 Clerkenwell Road.
9 Cosmo Place.
13 Dane Street.
*4a East Street.
*51 Farringdon Road.
33 Great Ormond Street.
1 Greville Street.
*91 Leather Lane.
*6 Lamb's Conduit Street.
50 Lamb's Conduit Street.
*55 Mount Pleasant.
19 Red Lion Street.
50 Red Lion Street.
*74 Red Lion Street.
92 Theobald's Road.
124 Theobald's Road.
*Viaduct Buildings, also 17 Charterhouse
Street (Factory).
36 Warner Street.
During the year, in addition to my inspections, there were 188 inspections
of bakehouses, including 12 inspections of the factory bakehouses.
Ten notices were served for various sanitary defects.
HOME WORK.
All the out-workers' premises were inspected at least once during the year by
the Lady Sanitary Inspector, details of which are given in the table. Many
inspections of home-workers' premises are also made during house to house
and periodical inspections of lodging houses and dwelling houses in which homeworkers
reside.
Further details respecting factories, workshops, laundries, workplaces and
home work are given in Table TX. (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) of the Appendix.
STANDARD BREAD AND FLOUR.
Bleached and so-called "Improved" Bread and Flour.
Although different kinds of wheat vary in composition, as the germ and
inner layer of the husk each contains a higher percentage of proteid, fat and
mineral matter, including phosphoric acid and iron, "standard" flour, i.e.,