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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1910
Report for the year 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Infectious Diseases:—
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 22
Phthisis or Consumption 22
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification 23
Ditto ditto Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911 24
Regulations as to Plague—Destruction of Rats 24
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia in Man25
Bacteriology 25
Disinfections 25
Shelter 25
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 26
Housing of the Working Classes Acts 26
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909 26
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 33
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 33
Revenue Acts 33
Overcrowding 33
Removal of House Refuse 33
Removal of Manure 34
Common Lodging Houses 34
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 35
Bakehouses 36
Home Work 37
"Standard" Bread and Flour 37
Bleached and so-called "Improved" Bread and Flour 37
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 41
Slaughter House 41
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 41
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908 41
Ice Cream 42
Unsound Food 42
Offensive fumes from factories 42
Poisouing by Fumes due to Fusing of Electric Light Cable 43
Smoke Abatement 44
Meteorology 44
APPENDICES.
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1910 and previous 10 years 45
Table II. Vital Statistics of whole Borough and Separate Localities in 1910
and previous 10 years 46
Table III. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1910 47
Table IV. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1910 48
Table V. Infantile Mortality during the year 1910 49
Table VI. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c. 50
Table VII. Ditto Notices, &c. 51
Table VIII. Proceedings during 1910 53
Table IX. Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homework 54
(1) Inspections 54
(2) Defects found 54
(3) Homework 55
(4) Registered Workshops 56
(5) Other matters 56
Table X. Legal Proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 57
Table XI. Legal Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 58
Table XII, Meteorology 59