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Holborn 1915

Report for the year 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Housing of the Working Classes Acts 29
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, Section 17 29
Underground Sleeping Rooms 29
Erection of Dwellings for Working Classes 29
Premises closed voluntarily, demolished, rebuilt, &c. 30
Sanitary Work 82
House-to-house inspections 32
Water Supply to New Buildings 33
Ditto to Tenement Houses 33
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 34
Revenue Acts 34
Overcrowding 34
Removal of House Refuse 34
Removal of Manure 35
Common Lodging Houses Acts, 1851 and 1853 36
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 36
Bakehouses 36
Home Work 37
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 37
Slaughter House 37
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 37
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 38
Ice Cream 39
Unsound Food 39
Offensive fumes from factories 39
Smoke Abatement 39
Meteorology of London, 1915 40
APPENDIX.
TaBle I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1916 and previous years 41
Table II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1915 42
Table III. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1915 43
Table IV. Infantile Mortality during the year 1915 44
Table V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c. 45
Table VI. Ditto Notices served 46
Table VII. Proceedings during 1915 48
Table VIII. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework 49
(1) Inspections 49
(2) Defects found 49
(3) Homework 50
(4) Registered Workshops 51
(5) Other matters 61
Table IX. Legal Proceedings—Public Health (London) Act, 1891 52
Ditto Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 52
Ditto Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 52
Table X. Meteorology of London, 1915 53