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Battersea 1925

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925

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Infectious Diseases—continued.
Zymotic Deaths 67
(ii.) Non-Notifiable Diseases 67
Chicken-pox 67
Diarrhoea 68
Influenza 69
Cancer 70
Sanitary Circumstances.
Summary Table 71
Legal Proceedings 72-78
Summary of ditto 78
Common Lodging Houses 78
Drainage Work.78
Revenue Act, 1903 79
Licensed Premises Urinals 79
Smoke and Effluvium Nuisances 79
Water Supply 79
Van Dwellings 80
Rag Flock Act 80
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 80
Personal Cleansing Station 81
Disinfecting Department 82
Mortuary 83
Staff 83
Protection of the Food Supply.
Unsound Food 84
Cow-Houses and Slaughter-Houses 84
Butchers' Shops 85
Public Health (Meat) Regulation, 1924 85
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 86
Analysts' Reports 87-91
Milk and Cream Regulations 92
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922 92
Ice Cream 91, 94
Milk (Special Designation) Order, 1923 94
Milk Shops 94
Fish Shops, Restaurant Kitchens, Street Stalls 95
Factories, Workshops, &c.—General Tables 96
Factories 97
Workshops 98
Outworkers 99, 102
Bakehouses 101
Warehouses and Wharves 101
Housing.
General 103
Overcrowding 103, 123
New Tenements and Houses erected 103, 104
Repair of Unfit Houses 104
Closing Orders 106
Underground Rooms 106
Increase of Rent, &c., Acts 106
Action under Section 5 107
Insanitary Areas 107
Houses Let in Lodgings—By-laws 107
Summary of Housing Work 108
Insanitary Houses 109-111
Statistics 112-114
Appendices.
Overcrowding Report 115-124
Chuter v. Wooding 124-126
Table I. Summary of Vital Statistics 127
„ II. Infectious Disease Notifications 128
,, III. Causes of, and Ages at, Death 129
,, IIIa. Causes of Death 1921-5 130
IV. Infant Mortality 131-134