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 1926
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Infectious Diseases—continued.
Zymotic Deaths 62
(ii.) Non-Notifiable Diseases 62
Chicken-pox 62
Diarrhœa 63
Influenza 63
Cancer 63
Sanitary Circumstances.
Summary Table 65
Legal Proceedings 66-71
Summary of ditto 71
Common Lodging Houses 71
Drainage Work 72
Revenue Act, 1903 72
Licensed Premises (Sanitary Conveniences) 73
Smoke and Effluvium Nuisances 73
Water Supply 73
Van Dwellings 73
Rag Flock Act 74
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 74
Personal Cleansing Station 74
Disinfecting Department 76
Coroner's Court and Mortuary 77
Staff 78
Protection of the Food Supply.
Inspection and Supervision 79
Unsound Food 79
Cow-Houses and Slaughter-Houses 79
Butchers' Shops 80
Public Health (Meat) Regulation, 1924 80
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 80
Analyst's Reports 80-85
Milk and Cream Regulations 86
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922 87
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926 87
Ice Cream Vendors 85
Milk (Special Designation) Order, 1923 88
Milk Shops 88
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations, 1925 89-91
Fish Shops, Restaurant Kitchens, Street Stalls 91
Food Poisoning 92
Factories, Workshops, &c.—General Tables 94
Factories 95
Workshops 96
Outworkers 97, 100
Bakehouses 99
Warehouses and Wharves 99
Housing.
General 101
Overcrowding 104
New Tenements and Houses erected 102
Repair of Unfit Houses 102
Closing Orders 104
Underground Rooms 104
Increase of Rent, &c., Acts 104
Action under Section 5, Housing Act, 1925 104
Insanitary Areas 104
Houses Let in Lodgings—By-laws 105
Summary of Housing Work 108
Insanitary Houses 105-108
Statistics 108-110
Staff 110
Appendices.
Table I. Summary of Vital Statistics 111
„ II. Infectious Disease Notifications 112
„ III. Causes of, and Ages at, Death 113
,, IV. Infant Mortality 114-117
Tuberculosis Scheme of the Borough Council—
Return of Work of the Dispensary 118-120