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 1927
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Infectious Diseases—continued. Page
Zymotic Deaths 59
(ii.) Non-Notifiable Diseases 59
Chicken-pox 59
Diarrhoea 60
Influenza 60
Cancer 60
Sanitary Circumstances.
Sanitary Inspection 62
Summary Table 62
Legal Proceedings 63-68
Common Lodging Houses 68
Drainage Work 69-70
Licensed Premises (Sanitary Conveniences) 70
Smoke and Effluvium Nuisances 70
Water Supply 70
Van Dwellings 71
Rag Flock Act 71
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 71-72
Fouling of Footways by Dogs 72
Personal Cleansing Station 72-73
Disinfecting Department 73
Coroner's Court and Mortuary 75
Staff 76
Thames Flooding 74
Protection of the Food Supply.
Inspection and Supervision 77
Unsound Food 77
Cow-Houses and Slaughter-Houses 77
Butchers' Shops 78
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 78
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 78
Analyst's Reports 78-83
Ice-Cream Vendors 83
Milk and Cream Regulations, 1912-17 84
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922 85
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926 85
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 85
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923 86
Public Health (Condensed and Dried Milk) Regulations 86
Milk Shops 86
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations, 1925 87
Fish Shops, Restaurant Kitchens, Street Stalls 87
Factories, Workshops, &c.—General Tables 88
Factories 89
Workshops 90
Outworkers 91-93, 94
Bakehouses 93
Warehouses and Wharves 93
Housing.
General 95
New Tenements and Houses erected 95
Repair of Unfit Houses 96
Closing Orders 96
Underground Rooms 97
Increase of Rent, &c„ Acts 97
Action under Section 5, Housing Act, 1925 97
Insanitary Areas 97
Overcrowding 97 98
Insanitary Houses 98-100
Statistics 101
Summary of Housing Work 101-102
Staff 102
Appendices.
Diphtheria—Report of M.O.H. on Schick Test 103-107
Table I. Summary of Vital Statisti 108
„ II. Infectious Disease Notifications 109
„ III. Causes of, and Ages at. Death 110
„ IV. Infant Mortality 111-114
Tuberculosis Scheme of the Borough Council—
Return of Work of the Dispensary 115 -117