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Chelsea 1930

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1930

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III.—Sanitary Circumstances and Administration.
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Complaints 43
Closet Accommodation 43
Removal and Disposal of Refuse 43
Sanitary Inspection of the Borough 43
Magisterial Proceedings 40
Smoke Abatement 46
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 50
Other Premises and Occupations Controlled by Byelaws or Regulations 50
Fouling of Foot-paths by Dogs 47
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 47
Pigeons, Nuisance caused by 48
Public Mortuary 52
Rag Flock Acts 52
Offensive Trades 52
IV.—Housing.
Housing Statistics 53
Housing Conditions in the Borough 55
(a.) General Observations 55
(b.) Sufficiency of Supply of Houses 55
(c.) Overcrowding 58
(d.) Fitness of Houses 58
(e.) Unhealthy Areas 60
(f.) Byelaws relating to Houses and Houses Let in Lodgings 61
(g.) Housing Survey 61
V.—Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply 62
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 63
Slaughter-houses 63
Bakehouses 64
Ice-cream Vendors 64
Fried Fish Vendors 64
Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale 65
Unsound Food 65
Food Poisoning 65
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 65
The Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations 66
Margarine 66
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food 66
Magisterial Proceedings under Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 66
Nutrition, Dissemination of Knowledge as to 67
VI.—Infectious and Other Diseases.
(a.) Infectious Diseases Generally 68
Diseases Notifiable in the Borough 68
Notifications 68
Diphtheria 69
Scarlet Fever 71
Measles 72
Enteric Fever 72
Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery 73
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 74
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 74
Poliomyelitis and Polio-Encephalitis 74
Encephalitis Lethargica
Chicken Pox 75
Smallpox and Vaccination 75
Venereal Disease 76
Disinfection 70
Infectious Diseases Shelter 76
Disinfestation 77