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 1925 of the Medical Officer of Health
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INDEX.
Page
Public Health Committee 5
Housing of the Working Classes Committee 5
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 6
Staff 6
Statistical Summary 7
Natural and Social Conditions
Population and Houses 8
Births 8
Deaths 9
Seasonal Mortality 10
Infantile Mortality 10
Poor Law and Hospital Relief 11
Sanitary Circumstances
Scavenging. Removal of House Refuse 11
Removal of Manure 13
Sanitary Inspection of District 13
Notices served 15
By-law as to Houses let in Lodgings 16
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 16
Inspection of Workshops 20
Factories 21
Factories Bill 21
Smoke Abatement 23
Common Lodging Houses 24
Food 24
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops 24
Sale of Groceries in Dairies 24
Residue from Milk Clarifiers 24
Bacteriological Examination of Milk 25
Dirt in Milk 26
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923 28
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912-17 28
Condensed Milk 29
Dried Milk 29
Margarine 29
Bakehouses 29
Fried Fish Shops 30
Fish Shops and Stalls 30
Market Streets and Exposure of Food Generally 30
Ice Cream 30
Meat Regulations 31
Sale of Fish—Proposed Regulations 33
Places where Food is Prepared for Sale 33
Washing-up Arrangements in Restaurants, etc. 34
Cleanliness and Food 34
Restaurants, Sanitary Accommodation for Customers 35
Registration of Eating Places 35
Unsound Food 36
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 36
Preservatives in Food Regulations 36
Adulterated Samples 39
Apples—Contamination by Arsenic 41
Cheese 12
Sophistication of Wines 44
Mussels 44
Contamination of Food 46
Food Standards 46
Milk—Fat Content 47
Table of Samples Purchased 49
Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases Generally 51
Smallpox 52
Vaccination 53
Diphtheria 54
Schick Test and Immunisation against Diphtheria 55
scarlet Fever 62
Enteric Fever 62
Typhus Fever 62
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 62
Dysentery 63
Malaria 63
Encephalitis Lethargica 63
Acute Poliomyelitis 63
Pneumonia 64
Influenza 66
Anthrax 66
Chickenpox 66
Mumps 66
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