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Holborn 1905

Report for the year 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Sudden and Violent Deaths 29
Inquests 29
The Public Mortuary 29
Disinfections 29
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1894 30
Bacteriology 30
Housing of the Working Classes Act 31
Ditto Part I. Italian Colony 31
Ditto „ Union Buildings Area 34
Ditto Part II. Representations 35
Ditto Part III. Reid's Brewery Site 35
Premises Closed Voluntarily, Demolished, Rebuilt, etc. 35
Sanitary Work 38
House to House Inspections 38
Water Supply to New Buildings 39
Ditto to Tenement Houses 40
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 40
Overcrowding 41
Removal of House Refuse 41
Removal of Manure 41
Common Lodging Houses 42
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 43
Home Workers' Order 44
Bakehouses 44
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 45
Slaughter Houses 45
Other Offensive Businesses 46
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops 46
Ice Cream 46
Unsound Food 47
Smoke Abatement 47
Meteorology 47
APPENDICES.
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1905 and previous
10 years 48
Table II. Vital Statistics of whole Borough and separate Localities in
1905 and previous 10 years 49
Table III. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1905 50
Table IV. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1905 51
Table V. Infantile Mortality during the year 1905 52
Table VI. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c. 53
Table VII. Ditto Notices, &c. 54
Table VIII. Proceedings during 1905 55
Table IX. Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homework 56
(1) Inspections 56
(2) Defects found 56
(3) Other matters 56
Table X. Legal Proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 58
Table XI. Legal Proceedings under the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1902 58
Table XII. Legal Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 59
Table XIII. Meteorology 60