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Bethnal Green 1927

Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1927

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INDEX.
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Public Health Committee:
constitution of 1
Introduction 4-5
Statistics and Social Conditions:
General Description of the
Borough 6
Social Welfare 6
Population 17
Marriages 17
Vital Statistics:
Review of period 1922-7 25
Extracts from 16
Births 16-17
Deaths: death rate, deaths
from certain specified causes
by sex and age; deaths
in Institutions; deaths by
Wards 18-24
Maternal Mortality 16
Infantile Mortality 17
Illegitimacy 18
Stillbirths 18
Mortuary Statistics 26-7
Inquests 27
Health Services:
Public Health Staff 2
General Medical Practitioners 8
Nursing Services 8
Midwives 9
Hospitals; Dispensaries, &c.:
Clinics 9-10
Day Nurseries 11
Orphanage 11
Maternity services 11
National Health Insurance 12
Ambulances 12
Tuberculosis Dispensary 13
Personal Cleansing Station 13
Births, Deaths and Marriages
—Registration 14
Vaccination 14
Analysis of Food 74-5
Bacteriological Examinations:
Pathological 62
Food 81
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General Sanitary Administration
:
Summary of Inspections 91
Defects discovered 92
Tenement Houses 92-3
Rent Restrictions Acts 93
Customs and Inland Revenue
Acts 93
Water Supply to New Houses 93
Smoke Abatement 93-4
Rats and Mice 94-5
House Refuse 95
Offensive Matter 95
,, Trades 95
Rag Flock Act 96
Rag and Bone Dealers 96
Hairdressers 96
Combined Drainage 96
Drainage Work 97
Factories, Workshops and
Work Places: Inspections
made and defects found 102
Workshops Registered 103
Outworkers 104-5
Legal Proceedings 106-9
Housing:
Review of Present Conditions 97-9
New Houses 100
Housing Inspection 100
Informal Action taken to
remedy defects 100
Action under Statutory Powers 100-1
Food:
Analysis : Summary 74-5
Action with respect to Adulterations
76-8
Do. Other Offences 78
Informal Samples 79
Milk Sampling: fresh, condensed,
dried 80
Preservatives in Food 81
Bacteriological examination of
Food 81
Milk Sellers and Dairymen 82
Graded Milk Licences 82-3
Cowhouses 83-4
Ice Cream Premises 84