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Holborn 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: SMOKE INSPECTION. There are 56 furnaces and boilers on the register, and periodical inspection is made of them to see that they are in proper working order, and consume their own smoke. There are nine kinds of smoke consumers in the District which are as follows:—

SMOKE INSPECTION. There are 56 furnaces and boilers on the register, and periodical inspection is made of them to see that they are in proper working order, and consume their own smoke. There are nine kinds of smoke consumers in the District which are as follows:—

Ventilated doors12
Martin's Patent4
Dr. Annan's Patent3
Nicholson's Patent3
Caddy's Patent Bars2
Jukes' Patent2
Galloway's Patent6
Gregory & Veal's Patent1
Gosling's Patent2
Total of smoke consumers35

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The number of furnaces and boilers without smoke consumers is 21. Nine intimation and five
Statutory notices were served to abate smoke nuisances, and were all complied with. In several cases
the owners were written to and cautioned not to allow the nuisance to recur. In one case the stoker
of the furnace was discharged for his negligence.

Table: THE MORTUARY. There were 129 bodies brought into the Mortuary from 1st January to December 31st, 1900; in 1899 the number was 158. Coroner's inquests were held on 57 of these. The verdicts were:—

THE MORTUARY. There were 129 bodies brought into the Mortuary from 1st January to December 31st, 1900; in 1899 the number was 158. Coroner's inquests were held on 57 of these. The verdicts were:—

Natural causes50
Accidental death3
Suffocation3
Suicide1
Total57

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METEORLOGY.
Details are given in Table VIII.
The mean temperature for the year was 50.4 F., or 1.6 F. above the mean of the preceding
129 years. The rainfall was 22.32 inches, being 2.51 below the average of the preceding 85 years.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
A list of the Legal Proceedings for diseased and unsound food is given in Table IX.
For Nuisance Cases in Table X.
And Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts in Table XI.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W. A. BOND.