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Holborn 1907

Report for the year 1907 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Typhus Fever 24
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 25
Measles 25
Whooping Cough 26
Diarrhœa 26
Phthisis or Consumption 26
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification 27
Ditto ditto Conference. Prevention of Consumption 27
Ditto ditto Royal Commission on Tuberculosis 29
Disinfections 29
Bacteriology 30
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 30
Housing of the Working Classes Acts 30
Ditto Part I. Italian Colony 30
Ditto „ Union Buildings Area 31
Premises Closed Voluntarily, Demolished, Rebuilt, etc. 31
Sanitary Work 34
House to House Inspections 34
Water Supply to New Buildings 34
Ditto to Tenement Houses 35
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 36
Overcrowding 36
Removal of House Refuse 36
Removal of Manure 36
Common Lodging Houses 37
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 38
Bakehouses 38
Home Workers' Order 49
Industrial Employment of Women 40
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 40
Slaughter House 41
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops
Ice Cream 41
Unsound Food 42
Smoke Abatement
Meteorology 42
APPENDICES
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1907 and previous 10 years 48
Table II. Vital Statistics of whole Borough and Separate Localities in 1907
and previous 10 years 44
Table III. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1907 45
Table IV. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1907 46
Table V. Infantile Mortality during the year 1907 47
Table VI. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c 48
Table VII. Ditto Notices, &c. 49
Table VIII. Proceedings during 1907 50
Table IX. Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homework 51
(1) Inspections 51
(2) Defects found 51
(3) Homework 52
(4) Registered Workshops 53
(5) Other matters 53
Table X. Legal Proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 54
Table XI. Legal Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drug Acts 54
Table XII. Meteorology 55