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 of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1923
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INDEX.
Page
Summary of Statistics, &c. 7
Natural and Social Conditions of the District.
Population 7
Marriages 8
Births 8
Deaths 9
Deaths of Infants 9
Summer Diarrhoea 10
Deaths of Illegitimate Infants 11
Deaths of Aged Persons 12
Deaths in Institutions 13
Deaths (Various Causes—Table II) 15
Table—Whole of London—Comparison 15
Sanitary Circumstances.
Closet Accommodation 17
Scavenging 17
Cesspools 17
Sanitary Inspection of District 17
Summonses 19
Factories and Workshops—Inspection of 22
Customs and Inland Revenue 25
House to House 25
Houses Let in Lodgings 25
Rat and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 25
Smoke Abatement 26
Controlled Premises and Occupations 26
Ice Cream Vendors 27
Schools 28
Food.
Milk Supply 28
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1922-1923 29-31
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923 33
Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations 1923 39
Certification of Food—Export to Canada 48
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 and 1917 49
Milk (Mothers and Children) Orders 51
Public Analyst's Annual Report 51
Meat—Slaughterhouses 56
Markets 58
Bakehouses 58
Unsound Food 61
Food Surrendered 61
Prevalence and Control over Infectious Diseases.
Infectious Diseases 61
Zymotic Diseases 62
Smallpox 62
Cholera 64
Plague 64
Diphtheria and Diphtheritic Membraneous Croup 64
Anti-toxin 64
Chart—Diphtheria. Chart—Scarlet Fever 65-66
Scarlet Fever 67
Enteric Fever 67
Erysipelas 67