Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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INDEX.
Public Health Committee 6
Housing of the Working Classes Committee 6
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 7
Staff 7
Statistical Summary 8
Natural and Social Conditions 9
Population and Houses 9
Births 9
Deaths 10
Seasonal Mortality 11
Infantile Mortality 11
Poor Law and Hospital Relief 12
Sanitary Circumstances 13
Scavenging. Removal of House Refuse 13
Removal of Manure 18
Sanitary Inspection of District 18
Notices served 20
By-law as to Houses let in Lodgings 21
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 21
Rat Week 23
Inspection of Workshops 23
Factories 24
Factories Bill 25
Smoke Abatement 28
Common Lodging Houses 28
Food 28
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops 28
Residue from Milk Clarifiers 28
Bacteriological Examination of Milk 28
Dirt in Milk 29
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923 32
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912-17 32
Condensed Milk 32
Dried Milk 33
Margarine 33
Bakehouses 33
Fried Fish Shops 34
Fish Shops and Stalls 34
Market Streets and Exposure of Food Generally 34
Ice Cream 35
Sale of Sweets 37
Meat Regulations 39
Places where Food is Prepared for Sale 40
Restaurants, Sanitary Accommodation for Customers 40
Unsound Food 41
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 41
Preservatives in Food Regulations 41
Apples—Contamination by Arsenic 41
Cake 43
Calomel Ointment 43
Cheese 43
Jam 43
Sausages 44
Swiss Roll 44
Cockles 44
Winkles45
Milk—Fat Content 46
Table of Samples Purchased 48
Food Poisoning 49
Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Diseases 51
Infectious Diseases Generally 51
Smallpox 52
Vaccination 52
Diphtheria 53
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