Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for 1924 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Proceedings Taken. | |
Intimation Notices served | 731 |
Statutory Notices under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 | 180 |
Statutory Notices under Section 28 of Housing, Town Planning, Act, 1919 | __ |
Statutory Notices under Bye-laws for paving yards and open spaces | 19 |
Statutory Notices under Bye-laws for provision of dust bins | 33 |
Total number of samples purchased for analysis under Sale of Food and Drugs Act | 391 |
Samples (Informal) purchased | 9 |
Samples of cream taken (Milk and Cream Regulations) | 6 |
Samples of Drugs purchased | 4 |
Legal Proceedings instituted in respect to defective sanitary conditions and nuisances | __ |
Legal proceedings under Sale of Food and Drugs Act | 1 |
Legal proceedings in respect of unsound food | __ |
Certificates issued in accordance with "Bents Restriction Act" | 1 |
Correspondence. | |
Number of letters written in connection with sanitary matters | 405 |
Entries in Inspectors' Beport Books | 740 |
Entries in Inhabitants' Complaints Book | 47 |
Notifications of infectious cases sent to School Authorities | 199 |
Notifications of infectious cases sent to Metropolitan Asylums Board | 352 |
Certificates of disinfection given | 309 |
Certificates of infectious disease for removal cases | 54 |
Notices sent to Public Library of premises where infectious diseases have occurred | 36 |
Post cards sent re samples under sale of food drugs Act | 387 |
Cleansing and Disinfection. | |
Number of Adults cleansed | 4 |
Number of Children cleansed | 609 |
Number of rooms or premises cleansed and disinfected | 428 |
Number of persons bathed for Scabies | 14 |
Number of articles (bedding, etc.) disinfected | 735 |
Number of articles (various) destroyed | 148 |
Disinfecting Station Shelter. | |
Persons accommodated | 9 |
Mortuary. | |
Number of bodies received | 91 |
Number of infectious bodies received | __ |
Number of bodies removed to Mortuary for Sanitary reasons | 1 |