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 Greenwich Borough]
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(c) Licensing of dairymen to use premises as a cow house
or place for the keeping of cows.
(d) Reception of notices given by persons who undertake
for reward the nursing and maintenance in a dwelling of
infants and the inspection of premises by infant protection
visitors or other persons appointed by the Council for that
purpose.
Fixing the number of infants to be kept in a dwelling
house in which any infant is received for reward.
Applications to a Court or Justice for an Order directing
the removal of an infant to a place of safety.
(e) Consideration of and decision upon applications for
sanction to the establishment anew or enlargement of
certain offensive businesses or imposition, modification or
removal of conditions.
(f) Licensing of slaughterers of cattle or horses and of
knackers to use premises as a slaughter house or knacker's
yard.
Licensing of persons to use premises for receiving or
keeping horses for slaughter or the carcases of dead horses.
11.—There shall be referred to the Committee all matters arising
out of the powers and duties of the Council under the
Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918, or any Act or Acts
amending the same, or of any Orders or Regulations made
under such Act or Acts, and the Committee shall make recommendations
to the Council in relation to the matters aforesaid.
12.—Powers and duties mentioned in Section 6 of the Widows',
Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925.
13.—The provision of artificial sunlight treatment for adult residents
of the Borough in accordance with Section 75, Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
14.—The execution of the duty under Section 12 of the Rent and
Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1933, to
issue certificates as to the state of repair of houses to which
the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts apply.
15.—The execution of the powers and duties of the Council under
the provisions of the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
16.—The execution of the powers and duties of the Council under
the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933; and
that each of the Council's Sanitary Inspectors be hereby