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 1936
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III.—Sanitary Circumstances and Administration.
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Complaints 42
Closet Accommodation 42
Removal and Disposal of Refuse 42
Sanitary Inspection of the Borough 42
Magisterial Proceedings 45
Shops 45
Smoke Abatement 45
Fouling of Footways by Dogs 45
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 45
Pigeons, Nuisance caused by 45
Fremises and Occupations Controlled by Byelaws or Regulations 47
Bed Bugs, Eradication of 47
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 47
Public Mortuary 40
Rag Flock 49
Offensive Trades 49
Swimming Baths and Pools 49
IV.—Housing.
Housing Statistics 60
Housing Conditions in the Borough 62
(a.) General Observations 62
(£>.) Sufficiency of Supply of Houses 52
(c.) Overcrowding 64
(d.) Fitness of Houses 65
(«.) Unhealthy Areas 56
(/.) Byelaws relating to Houses and Houses Let in Lodgings 56
(g.) Housing Inspections 56
V.—Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply 58
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 . 59
Slaughter-houses 59
Bakehouses 59
Ice-cream Vendors 59
Fried Fish Vendors 59
Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale 60
Unsound Food 60
Food Poisoning 60
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 60
The Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations 60
Margarine
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food 61
Nutrition, Dissemination of Knowledge as to 61
Shell Fish 61
Magisterial Proceedings 61
VI.—Infectious and Other Diseases.
(a.) Infectious Diseases Generally 62
Diseases Notifiable in the Borough 62
Notifications 62
Diphtheria 64
Scarlct Fever 65
Measles 65
Enteric Fever 66
Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery 66
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 67