London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Finsbury 1908

Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A—VITAL STATISTICS. FOOD SUPPLY—continued.
Page Page
Population 7 Certification of Meat-Food
Births 8 Products 85
Registration of Births 8 Slaughter-houses 85
Notification ,, ,, 9 Milk Supply 86
Investigations into 13 Registration of Milkshops 86
Deaths and Death Rates 18 Examination of Milk 90
„ in Hospitals, &c 20 Adulterated Milk 91
,, in relation to Age 21 Ice Cream 93
Senile Mortality 22 Butter, Margarine, &c, 94
Infantile Mortality 22 Restaurants, Food Stalls, &c. 94
Investigations into Infant Deaths 30 Sanitation of Food Premises 95
Prevention of Infantile Mortality 36 Sale of Food & Drugs Acts 95
The Infants' Milk Depot 37
Deaths in relation to Disease- 49
Epidemic Diarrhœa 49 D-HOUSING.
„ „ Causation 50 Housing of the Working Classes
„ „Prevention 54 Act s 98
Zymotic or Infectious Diseases 55 Houses Let in Lodgings 98
Cancer and Malignant Disease 55 Common Lodging Houses 99
Respiratory Diseases 57 House to House Inspection 99
Diseases of the Heart and Overcrowding 100
Circulatory System Underground & Stable Dwellings 101
Alcoholism 58 Customs and Inland Revenue
Tuberculosis 59 Acts 102
Accident and Suicide 59
E—FACTORIES AND
B—RECORDS OF DISEASE. WORKSHOPS.
Notification of Infectious Nature of Works, &c 103
Diseases 60 Inspection of Workshops, &c 106
Discharge Notices 62 Sanitary Condition 108
Small Pox 63 Bakehouses 109
Diphtheria 63 Home Work 109
Scarlet Fever 65 Outworkers' Lists 111
Enteric Fever 68 Registration, &c. of Workshops 113
Puerperal Fever 70 Legal Proceedings 116
Erysipelas 70
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 71
Measles 71 F—GENERAL SANITATION
Whooping Cough 74 AND ADMINISTRATION.
Phthisis 74
,, Voluntary Notification of 74 The Canal and Canal Boats 123
,, in relation to occupation 75 Elementary Schools 126
Deaths 75 Black Smoke Nuisances 127
„ in Institutions 76 Cleansing of Persons Act 128
,, Prevention-Measures Mortuaries 128
adopted 78 Water Supply to Tenement
Other Forms of Tuberculosis 79 Houses 129
Disinfection 79 Reception House 130
Removal of Dust, &c 130
Drainage Plans 131
C—FOOD SUPPLY. Work of Inspectors 132
Legal Proceedings 133
Meat Supply 81 Tables I—V 140
,, Confiscated 82 Pauperism in Finsbury 144
„ Prosecutions 84 Vaccination Returns 148