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 Hammersmith Borough]
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CONTENTS Page
Introduction 1
Staff 2
SECTION A - SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND STATISTICS:-
Births 4
Deaths 4
Infant Mortality 5
Marriages 4
Maternal Mortality 5
Population 4
Social Conditions 3
SECTION B - PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASES:-
Contacts and Carriers - Sickness Benefit 6
Dysentery 7
Food Poisoning 7
Health Laundry 11
Medicinal Baths 8
Notifications 6
Poliomyelitis 7
Tuberculosis 6
SECTION C - HOUSING:-
Overcrowding (Section 61) 16
Permanent Estates 15
Re-housing 15
SECTION D - INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD:-
Designated Milk - Licenses 24
Food & Drugs Act, 1955 17
Ice Cream 21
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment etc.) Fiegulations 1947- 1952 21
Ice Cream and Preserved Food Premises 22
Markets 20
Meat and other Foods 18
Milk Supplies 23
Olympia Exhibition Halls 20
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations. 1923/48 25
Sampling 19
Wormwood Scrubs Fair 20
SECTION E - SANITARY ADMINISTRATION:-
Coroner's Court and Public Mortuary 27
Exhumation and Re-interment of bodies 26
Housing Repairs and Rent Act, 1954 26
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1952 - Rag and Bone Dealers 27
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act. 1954 - Hairdressers and Barbers 28
Pet Animals Act, 1951 27
Pharmacy & Poisons Act, 1933 and Pharmacy & Medicines Act,1941 28
Public Baths and Washhouses 28
Lag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 27
Staff - Inspectorial 26
SECTION F - SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:-
Atmospheric Pollution 32
Drainage 30
Dustbins 30
Factories 31
Public Cleansing 30
Rodent Control 31
Sanitary Inspection 31
Water Supply 30