Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1924
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Sanitary Circumstances.
Summary Table 62
Legal Proceedings 63 66
Common Lodging Houses 67
Drainage Work 67
Revenue Act, 1903 67
Licensed Premises Urinals 67
Smoke and Effluvium Nuisances 67,68
Water Supply 68
Van Dwellings 68
Rag Flock Act 68
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 68
Personal Cleansing Station 69
Disinfecting Department 70
Mortuary 71
Staff 3,72, 100
Protection of the Food Supply.
Unsound Food 73
Cow-Houses and Slaughter-Houses 73
Butchers' Shops 74
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 74 75
Milk 75
Preservatives in Foods 75
Milk and Cream Regulations 79
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922 81
Ice Cream 81
Milk Shops 81
Fish Shops 82
Restaurant Kitchens 82
Street Stalls 82
Factories, Workshops, &c.—General Tables 83
Factories 84
Workshops 85
Outworkers 86,89
Bakehouses 88
Warehouses and Wharves 88
Housing.
General 90
Overcrowding 91
New Tenements and Houses erected 91
Repair of Unfit Houses 91
Closing Orders 93
Underground Dwellings 93
Increase of Rent, &c., Acts 93
Houses Let in Lodgings—By-laws 94
Unhealthy Areas 94
Insanitary Houses 95
Statistics 98
Appendices.
Table I. Summary of Vital Statistics 101
„ II. Infectious Disease Notifications 102
„ III. Causes of, and Ages at, Death 103
„ IV. Infant Mortality 104-107
Population of Battersea & County of London.
Census return as to—
I. Occupations 108
II. Age Distribution & Marital Condition 109