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 1954
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Inspections and Proceedings 23
Registered Premises 25
Smoke Nuisances 25
Water Supply to Tenement Houses 25
Sale of Food 25
Rag, Flock and other Filling Materials Act, 1951 25
Dramage Work 25
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 26
Work of the District Inspectors 28
Factories and Workshops —Homework 29
Factories and Workshops —Inspections 30
Bakehouses 31
House, Trade and Market Refuse 31
Offensive Trades 31
Pet Animals Act, 1951 31
Catering Establishments 32
Work of Factories and Shops Inspector 32
Rodent Control 33
FOOD CONTROL—
Imported Food Regulations—Samples taken 34
Section 14, Food and Drugs Act and Dairies 37
Disposal of Unsound Food 37
Food Premises and Types of Business 37
Unsound Food —Shops and Stalls 38
Pharmacy and Poisons 38
Milk Premises 38
Milk Licences 39
Milk Sampling 39
Ice Cream 40
Food and Drugs—Samples Taken 41
Unsound Food —Wharves, etc 43
Legal Proceedings 45
Work of the Wharves and Food Inspectors 46
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES—
Old People's Welfare 47
National Assistance Act, Section 50 49
National Assistance Act, Section 47 50
Mortuary 51
Water Supply 52
Free Washing Facilities 53
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation 53
Street and Open Markets 53
Public Health Laboratory Service 55