Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1933
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III.—Sanitary Circumstances and Administration.
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Complaints 45
Closet Accommodation 45
Removal and Disposal of Refuse 45
Sanitary Inspection of the Borough 45
Magisterial Proceedings 48
Smoke Abatement 49
Fouling of Footways by Dogs 49
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 49
Pigeons, Nuisance caused by 49
Premises and Occupations Controlled by Byelaws or Regulations 51
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 51
Public Mortuary 53
Rag Flock Acts 53
Offensive Trades 53
IV.—Housing.
Housing Statistics 54
Housing Conditions in the Borough 55
(a.) General Observations 55
(b.) Sufficiency of Supply of Houses 56
(c.) Overcrowding 58
(d.) Fitness of Houses 58
(e.) Unhealthy Areas 59
(/.) Byelaws relating to Houses and Houses Let in Lodgings 60
(,g.) Housing Survey 60
V.—Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply 62
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 63
Slaughter-houses 63
Bakehouses 63
Ice-cream Vendors 63
Fried Fish Vendors 63
Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale 63
Unsound Food 64
Food Poisoning 64
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 64
The Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations 64
Margarine 64
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food 64
Nutrition, Dissemination of Knowledge as to 65
VI.—Infectious and Other Diseases.
(a.) Infectious Diseases Generally 66
Diseases Notifiable in the Borough 66
Notifications 66
Diphtheria 67
Scarlet Fever 68
Measles 69
Enteric Fever 69
Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery 69
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 70