Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1923
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Public Health Committee 1
Housing of the Working Classes Committee 1
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 2
Staff 2
Statistical Summary 3
Natural and Social Conditions
Population and Houses 5
Ages 5
Occupations 6
Births 6
Deaths 7
Seasonal Mortality 8
Infantile Mortality 9
Poor Law and Hospital Relief 9
Sanitary Circumstances
Scavenging. Removal of House Refuse 9
Removal of Manure 10
Sanitary Inspection of District 10
Notices served 11
By-law as to Houses let in Lodgings 13
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 13
Inspection of Workshops 16
Hygienic Arrangements for Staffs of Hotels, Restaurants and Eating Houses 17
Hygienic Inspection of Licensed Houses 17
Smoke Abatement 18
Common Lodging Houses 18
Food
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops 18
Milk Supply 18
Dirt in Milk 19
Bacteriological Examination of Milk 20
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923 21
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912-17 22
Condensed Milk 22
The Hygiene of Restaurants, Eating Houses and Public Houses 23
Kitchens 23
Storage of Food 24
Washing up Arrangements 25
Public Houses 26
Bakehouses 28
Fried Fish Shops 29
Market Streets and Exposure of Food Generally 29
Ice Cream 29
Meat 30
Places where Food is Prepared for Sale 30
Unsound Food 30
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 31
Preservatives in Foods 31
Adulterated Samples 31
Cream Cheese 32
MilkāFat Content 34
Chlorodyne 36
Table of Samples Purchased 37
Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Diseases 39
Infectious Diseases Generally 39
Smallpox 40
Vaccination 14
Diphtheria 42
Schick Test and Immunisation against Diphtheria 44
Scarlet Fever 46
Enteric Fever 46
Typhus Fever 46
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 46
Dysentery 46
Malaria 47
Encephalitis Lethargica 47
Acute Poliomyelitis 47
Pneumonia 47
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