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 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Infectious Diseases:—
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 23
Phthisis or Consumption 23
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification 24
Ditto ditto Public Health (Tuberculosis) .Regulations, 1908 24
Ditto ditto Royal Commission on Tuberculosis 25
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in Man 26
Bacteriology 26
Disinfections 26
Shelter 26
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 27
Housing of the Working Classes Acts 27
Housing accommodation for Working Classes 28
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Bill, 1909 28
Premises Closed Voluntarily, Demolished, Rebuilt, etc. 29
Sanitary Work 31
House to House Inspections 31
Water Supply to New Buildings 32
Ditto to Tenement Houses 32
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 32
Revenue Acts 32
Overcrowding 33
Removal of House Refuse 33
Removal of Manure 33
Common Lodging Houses 33
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 34
Bakehouses 35
Home Work 36
Industrial Employment of Women 36
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 37
Slaughter House 37
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 38
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908 88
Illness due to Contaminated Milk 39
Ice Cream 39
Unsound Food 89
Offensive fumes from factories 39
Smoke Abatement 40
Meteorology 40
APPENDICES.
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1909 and previous 10 years 41
Table II. Vital Statistics of whole Borough and Separate Localities in 1909
and previous 10 years 42
Table III. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1909 43
Table IV. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1909 44
Table V. Infantile Mortality during the year 1909 45
Table VI. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c. 46
Table VII Ditto Notices, &c. 47
Table VIII. Proceedings during 1909 49
Table IX. Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homework 50
(1) Inspections 50
(2) Defects found 50
(3) Homework 51
(4) Registered Workshops 52
(5) Other matters 52
Table X. Legal Proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 53
Table XI. Legal Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 54
Table XII. .Meteorology 54