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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hampstead 1916
Report for the year 1916 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Registered Workshops.
Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of year. No.
Bakehouses 27
Bootmakers 36
Dressmakers and ladies' tailors 80
Laundries 4
Milliners 22
Tailors 37
Watchmakers and jewellers 12
Wigmakers 13
Other 117
Total number of workshops on Register 348
Other matters.
Class (1) No. (2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories :—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Acts
(s. 133, 1901) 21
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable
under the public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and
Workshop Acts (s. 5, 1901 :—
Notified by H.M. Inspector —
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector —
Other 2
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101) in use at the end of the year 21
Section C.
PREVALENCE OF & CONTROL OVER ACUTE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES (EXCLUDING TUBERCULOSIS).
The list of Infectious Diseases notifiable in London during
1916, was as follows :—
Small-pox Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Cholera. Typhus Fever.
Diphtheria. Relapsing Fever.
Membranous Croup. Continued Fever.
Erysipelas. Puerperal Fever.
Scarlet Fever. Anthrax
Epidemic Cerebro. Hydrophobia Occurring in Man.
Spinal Meningitis. Glanders
Plague. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Polio-Myelitis. Measles.
German Measles.