Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1916
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GLANDERS AND FARCY ORDER, 1907.
No notification of this disease was received during the year.
DISEASE OF ANIMALS ACTS.—ANTHRAX ORDER of 1910.
No notification of anthrax in animals in the Borough was
received during 1916.
HOUSING, TOWN PLANNING, &c., ACT, 1909.
No action under the above was taken during 1916.
THE RIVER LEE.
No complaints of serious nuisance from this River were received
during 1916.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.
Notifications.
Under these Regulations, I received 1,113 notifications of cases
of pulmonary tuberculosis, during the year 1916, of which 538
were duplicates; also 209 non-pulmonary notifications, of which 51
were duplicates.
The following Tables A and B give the age and sex distribution
of the notified cases :—