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 1934
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III.—Sanitary Circumstances and Administration.
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Complaints 44
Closet Accommodation 44
Removal and Disposal of Refuse 44
Sanitary Inspection of the Borough 44
Magisterial Proceedings 47
Smoke Abatement 48
Fouling of Footways by Dogs 48
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 48
Pigeons, Nuisance caused by 48
Premises and Occupations Controlled by Byelaws or Regulations 50
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 50
Public Mortuary 52
Rag Flock Acts 52
Offensive Trades 52
IV.—Housing.
Housing Statistics 53
Housing Conditions in the Borough 54
(a.) General Observations 54
(b.) Sufficiency of Supply of Houses 55
(c.) Overcrowding 57
(d.) Fitness of Houses 57
(e.) Unhealthy Areas 58
(f.) Byelaws relating to Houses and Houses Let in Lodgings 59
(g.) Housing Survey 59
V.—Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply 61
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 62
Slaughter-houses 62
Bakehouses 62
Ice-cream Vendors 62
Fried Fish Vendors 62
Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale 62
Unsound Food 63
Food Poisoning 63
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 63
The Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations 63
Margarine 63
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food 64
Nutrition, Dissemination of Knowledge as to 64
VI.—Infectious and Other Diseases.
(a.) Infectious Diseases Generally 65
Diseases Notifiable in the Borough 65
Notifications 65
Diphtheria 66
Scarlet Fever 67
Measles 68
Enteric Fever 68
Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery 69
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 69