Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
This page requires JavaScript
2
PAGE
Prevention of Consumption 23
Ditto Voluntary Notification 23
Ditto Spitting 23
Ditto Disinfection 24
Ditto Sanatoria 24
Influenza 24
Alcoholism 24
Sudden and Violent Deaths 25
Inquests 25
The Public Mortuary 25
Housing of the Working Classes Act 25
Ditto Part I. Italian Colony 25
Ditto „ Union Buildings Area 26
Ditto Part 11. Representations 26
Ditto Part 111. Eeid's Brewery Site 26
Ditto ~ Herbrand Street Site 27
Houses Closed Voluntarily, Demolished, Rebuilt, etc. 27
Water Supply to New Buildings 29
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 29
Sanitary Work 30
Ditto Changes in Staff 30
Ditto Appointment of Female Inspector 30
House to House Inspections 32
Bye-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 33
Common Lodging Houses 34
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 36
Bakehouses 37
Underground Bakehouses 37
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 38
Other Shops where Food is Sold 38
Slaughter Houses 38
Offensive Businesses 38
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops 39
Ice Creams 39
Unsound Food 39
Smoke Abatement 40
Meteorology 40
APPENDICES.
PAGE
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1903, and previous 10 years 41
Table 11. Vital Statistics of whole Borough and separate Localities in 1903 and
previous 10 years 41
Table 111. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1903 42
Table IV. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1903 42
Table V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work 43
Table VI. Proceedings during 1903 44
Table VII. Factories, Workshops and Workplaces—lnspections, etc. 45
Table VIII. Factories, Workshops and Workplaces—Matters dealt with 45
Table IX. Outworkers 46
Table X. Legal Proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 46
Table XI. Legal Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 47
Table XII. Legal Proceedings under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order 49
Table XIII. Meteorology 49