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
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Introduction 1
Staff of the Health Department 2
Social Conditions 3
PART I
STATISTICS AND TABLES
Area and Population 4
Vital Statistics 5-8
Deaths: 8
Causes in age groups 9
Cancer 10-11
Infant Mortality 11-12-13
Maternal Mortality 13
Marriages 14
PART II
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notification of infectious diseases 15
Vaccination and immunisation 16
Incidence of infectious disease: —
Dysentery 17
Food Poisoning 17
Poliomyelitis 17
Smallpox 18
Tuberculosis 18-21
Typhoid 21
International Certificates of Vaccination
and Inoculation 21
PART III
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE
Staff—Inspectorial 22
Sanitary Circumstances
Housing 22-24
Rent Act, 1957 and Housing Repairs
and Rents Act, 1954 24
Sanitary Inspections 24-25
Summonses 25
Sewerage 25
Water Supply 26-27
Public Cleansing 27
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Drainage 27
Dustbins 27
Factories, Workshops & Outworkers 27-28
Rodent Control 28-29
Licences and Registrations
Hairdressers 29
Pharmacy and Poisons 30
Rag Flock 30
Pet Animals 30
Rag and Bone Dealers 30
Caravans 30
Atmospheric Pollution
Smoke Control Areas 30
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution
31
Inter-Borough Smoke Liaison
Committee 31
Area Maps 32-35
Inspection and Supervision of Food
General 36
Food:
Premises 37
Unsound 37
Sampling 38
Bacteriological Examinations of Food 39
Ice-Cream and Preserved Food 40
Milk Supplies 40
Designated Milk Licences:
P.H. (Condensed Milk) Regs.
1923/48 41
Skimmed Milk with Non-Milk
Fat Regs. 1960 42
Markets 42
Medicinal Baths
Treatment Centre 42
Section 43 of L.C.C. (G.P.) Act, 1953 43
Sterilisation 43
Health Laundry 44-45
Disinfestation 46
Disinfection 46