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Battersea 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Infectious Diseases—continued. Page
County of London (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930 73
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations 1930 73
Revision of Register 73
Dispensary Report and Summary Tables 68,120, 136-140
Zymotic Deaths 76
(ii.) Non-Notifiable Diseases 76-78
Sanitary Circumstances.
Summary Table 79
Legal Proceedings 80-83
Common Lodging Houses 84
Drainage Work 84
Scavenging and House Refuse Collection 85
Premises Controlled by By-laws 85
Licensed Premises (Sanitary Conveniences) 86
Smoke and Effluvium Nuisances 86
Water Supply 86
Houses Let in Separate Tenements 85
Van Dwellings 87
Rag Flock Acts, 1911 and 1928 87
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 87
Fouling of Footways by Dogs 88
Personal Cleansing Station 89
Disinfecting Department 90
Coroner's Court and Mortuary 91
Protection of the Food Supply.
Inspection and Supervision 92
Unsound Food 92
Cow-Houses, Slaughter-Houses and Butchers' Shops 92
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 93
Food and Drugs Adulteration Act, 1928 93
Results of Analysis 94-99
Ice Cream 100
Milk Orders and Milk Shops 100, 101
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations 101
Agricultural Produce and Merchandise Marks Acts101, 102
Artificial Cream Act, 1929 102
Fish Shops, Restaurant Kitchens, Street Stalls 102
Factories, Workshops, &c.—General Tables 103
Factories and Workshops 104-106
Outworkers and Home Work 106-107,109
Bakehouses, Warehouses and Wharves 108
Housing.
General—Housing Act, 1930 110, 111
New Houses 111
Overcrowding 113
Repair of Unfit Houses 114
Appeals 115
Closing and Demolition Orders 115
Underground Rooms 115
Increase of Rent, &c., Acts 115
Action under Section 5, Housing Act, 1925 115
Insanitary Areas 115
Insanitary Houses 116
Statistics and Summary of Housing Work 117-119
Appendices.
Annual Report of Tuberculosis Medical Officer 120-128
Table I. Summary of Vital Statistics 129
,, II. Infectious Disease Notifications 130
„ III. Causes of, and Ages at, Death 131
IV. Infant Mortality 132-135
Tuberculosis Scheme of the Borough Council—
Return of Work of the Dispensary 136-140