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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hampstead 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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| Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of year. | No. |
|---|---|
| Bakehouses | 26 |
| Bootmakers | 31 |
| Dressmakers and ladies' tailors | 70 |
| Laundries | 4 |
| Milliners | 17 |
| Tailors | 36 |
| Watchmakers and jewellers | 12 |
| Wigmakers | 9 |
| Other | 150 |
| Total number of workshops on Register | 355 |
Other Matters.
Class (1) No. (2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories :—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Acts
(s. 133, 1901) 9
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable
under the public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and
Workshop Acts (s. 5, 1901):—
Notified by H. M. Inspector —
"Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector —
Other —
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101) in use at the end of the year 21
Section C.
PREVALENCE OF & CONTROL OVER ACUTE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES (EXCLUDING TUBERCULOSIS).
The list of Infectious Diseases notifiable in London during 1917, was as follows:—
| Small-pox. | Typhoid or Enteric Fever. | |
| Cholera. | Typhus Fever. | |
| Diphtheria. | Relapsing Fever | |
| Membranous Croup. | Continued Fever. | |
| Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | |
| Scarlet Fever. | Anthrax | Occuring in Man. |
| Epidemic Cerebro | Hydrophobia | |
| Spinal Meningitis. | Glanders | |
| Plague. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | |
| Polio-Myelitis. | Measles. | |
| German Measles. | ||