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Hammersmith 1924

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924

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INDEX.
Page
Summary of Statistics, &c 7
Natural and Social Conditions of the District.
Population 7
Marriages 8
Births 8
Deaths 8
Deaths of Infants 10
Summer Diarrhoea 10
Deaths of Illegitimate Infants 10
Deaths of Aged Persons 11
Deaths in Institutions 12
Deaths (Various Causes—Table II.) 14
Table—Whole of London—Comparison 15
Sanitary Circumstances.
Closet Accommodation16
Scavenging 16
Cesspools 16
Sanitary Inspection of District 16
Summonses 17
Factories and Workshops—Inspection of 19
Customs and Inland Revenue 22
House to House 22
Houses Let in Lodgings 22
Rat and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 22
Smoke Abatement 23
Controlled Premises and ccupations 23
Ice Cream Vendors 23
Schools 24
Food.
Milk Supply 24
Preservatives and Colouring Matters in Food 25
Certification of Food—Export to Canada 27
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 and 1917 28
Milk (Mothers aud Children) Orders 29
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 29
Meat—Slaughterhouses 34
public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 34
Markets 43
Bakehouses 44
Unsound Food 46
Food Surrendered 46
Prevalence and Control over Infectious Diseases.
Infectious Diseases 46
Zymotic Diseases 47
rimallpox 48
Cholera 48
Plague 48
Diphtheria and Diphtheritic Membraneous Croup 48
Anti-toxin 48
Chart—Diphtheria. Chart—Scarlet Fever 49-50
Scarlet Fever 51
Enteric Fever 51
Erysipelas 61
Typhus Fever 51
Relapsing Fever 51
Continued Fever 51
Puerperal Fever 51
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 51
Acute Polio-myelitis 51
Encephalitis Lethargies 52