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Holborn 1914

Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Premises closed voluntarily, demolished, rebuilt, &c. 25
Sanitary Work 27
House-to-house inspections 27
Water Supply to New Buildings 28
Ditto to Tenement Houses 29
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 29
Revenue Acts 29
Overcrowding 29
Removal of House Refuse 30
Removal of Manure 30
Common Lodging Houses Acts, 1851 and 1853 31
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 32
Bakehouses 32
Home Work 33
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 34
Slaughter House 34
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 34
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 34
Ice Cream 36
Unsound Food 36
Offensive fumes from factories 36
Smoke Abatement 37
Meteorology of London, 1914 37
APPENDIX.
Table: I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1914 and previous years 39
Table II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1914 40
Table III. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1914 41
Table IV. Infantile Mortality during the year 1914 42
Table V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c.43
Table VI. Ditto Notices served 44
Table VII. Proceedings during 1914 46
Table VIII. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework 47
(1) Inspections 47
(2) Defects found 47
(3) Homework 48
(4) Registered Workshops 49
(5) Other matters 49
Table IX. Legal Proceedings—Public Health (London) Act, 1891 50
Table X. Ditto Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 50
Table XI. Meteorology of London, 1914 51