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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
Ilford 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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5. Notification of Non-Notifiable Acute Infectious
Diseases, including Influenza, occurring in Elementary School
Children is received from the Head Teachers or School Attendance
Officers. As circumstances warrant, the School or Home is visited
by the Sanitary Inspector or Health Visitor, and in certain cases
by the Medical Officer of Health.
6. Disinfection by the Local Authority is carried out of
premises and articles after the notification of infectious diseases,
and also, upon request, after fatal cases of cancer. In the case of
deaths from tuberculosis, the premises are visited by the Sanitary
Inspectors, who arrange for the necessary disinfection to take
place. "Five verminous premises were disinfected during the year
under the Public Health Acts, and in the School Medical Service
Section will be found a record of the number of children cleansed
under the Education Act, Section 87.
SECTION VI.—FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. Factories.
There are 159 factories on the register, made up as follows:—
| Bakehouses | 17 | Nautical Instrument Maker | 1 |
| Boot Makers and Repairers | 30 | Optician | 1 |
| Builders, Joinery and Carpentry Works | 5 | Paint Manufacturer | 1 |
| Paper Mills | 1 | ||
| Cabinet Maker | 1 | Photographic Works | 1 |
| Cable Works | 1 | Picture Moulders | 1 |
| Carbon Works | 1 | Plating and Enamelling | 1 |
| Cardboard Box Maker | 1 | Polish Manufacturer | 1 |
| Carriage Works | 1 | Poultry Appliance Maker | 1 |
| Chemical Works | 1 | Printers' Engineer | 1 |
| Collar Works | 1 | Printing Works | 8 |
| Confectionery Maker | 1 | Saw Mills | 5 |
| Corset Maker | 1 | Seed Sorting | 1 |
| Cutlery and Tool Grinders | 2 | Shirt Makers | 3 |
| Cycle Repairers | 2 | Sign Maker | 1 |
| Dyers and Cleaners | 1 | Stone Mason | 1 |
| Electricity Supply Works | 1 | Tarpaulin Repairer | 1 |
| Engineers | 14 | Tool Engineer | 1 |
| Gas Mantle Manufacturer | 1 | Toy Maker | 1 |
| Gilding Works | 1 | Umbrella Repairers | 2 |
| Hardware Manufacturer | 1 | Vulcanising Works | 1 |
| Iron Cutting Works | 1 | Watchmaker and Repairer | 1 |
| Laundries | 4 | Wearing Apparel Makers | 3 |
| Leather Worker | 1 | Wire and Cable Manufacturer | 1 |
| Mattress Maker | 1 | Wireless Apparatus Makers | 2 |
| Meat Cutting | 9 | Wood Cutter | 1 |
| Metal Worker | 1 | ||
| Mineral Water Manufacturer | 1 | Total | 159 |
| Motor Engineers | 14 |