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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
Bethnal Green 1927
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1927
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Food—continued. page
Fried Fish and Fish Curing
Premises 84
Bakehouses: Workshop 84
Factory 85
Bakehouse Welfare Order, 1927 85
Margarine Wholesalers 85
Other Food Premises 85
Slaughterhouses : Meat 86-7
Poultry 87
Unsound Food 87-8
Food Poisoning 89
Sale of Food Order, 1921 89
Do. (Weights and Measures)
Act, 1926 89
Infectious Disease:
Notifiable:
Diphtheria 53-5
Scarlet Fever 54-5
Typhoid Fever 55
Smallpox 55
Do. Vaccination against 56
Other Notifiable Diseases 56
Notification of Cases of
Notifiable Disease 57
Disinfection: Table of rooms,
bedding and clothing disinfected
60
Disinfection of Verminous
Persons 61-2
Distribution of Disinfectant 62
Shelter for Contacts 62
Bacteriological Examinations
62
Non-Notifiable:
Measles 58
Chicken Pox 59
Suspected Disease 59
Other Diseases:
Cancer 22
Scabies 61
Tuberculosis:
Deaths 63
Notifications 64, 66
New cases, otherwise than
by notification 65
Tuberculosis—continued. page
Revision of Register 66-7
Tuberculosis Health Visitors 67
Tuberculosis Sub-Committee 67
Sputum Outfits 68
Sleeping Shelter 68
Sanatorium Treatment 68
Extra Nourishment 68
Dispensary 68
Joint Dispensary Committee 69
Dental Treatment 69
Finsen Light Treatment 69
Pneumo thorax Refills 69
Artificial Light Treatment 69
After-history of Cases notified
in 1917 and 1922 70-2
Comparison of Real Wages
and Tuberculosis Death
Rates: Graph (facing) 71
Dispensary: Report of Clinical
Tuberculosis Officer 110-19
Maternity and Child Welfare:
Notification of Births 29
Work of Health Visitors 29
Welfare Centres 30
Infant Consultations 31
Maternity Clinic 32-4
Borough Midwifery Service 35
Obstetrical Consultations 36
Milk Grants 36-7
Hygienic Clothing 37
Special Clinic for Delicate
Children 37-8
Prophylactic Light Clinic 39
Massage 39
Dental Clinic 40
Convalescent Treatment 41
Nursing Assistance 42-4
Infant Mortality 44-6
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia 47
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 47-8
Stillbirths 48-9
Infantile Diarrhoea 49-51
Developments in Maternity and
Child Welfare Services 51-2
Legal Proceedings: Summary
of Cases: General 106-9
Food 76-8