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 1-2
Staff of the Health Department 3
Physical and Social Conditions 4
PART 1
STATISTICS AND TABLES
Area and Population 5
Vital Statistics 5-9
Deaths:
Causes in age groups 10
Cancer 11-12
Infant Mortality 12-14
Maternal Mortality 14
Stillbirths 14-15
Marriages 15
PART II
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notification of infectious diseases 16
Immunisation and vaccination 17
Incidence of infectious disease:
Dysentery 18
Food Poisoning 19
Smallpox 19
Tuberculosis 19-21
Paratyphoid 22
Poliomyelitis 22
Typhoid 22
International Certificates of Vaccination
and Inoculation 22
Mass X-ray 22
PART III
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE
Staff—Inspectoral 23
Sanitary Circumstances
Housing 23-26
Rent Act, 1957, and Housing
Repairs Repairs and Rents Act,
1954 26
Sanitary Inspections 26-27
Summonses 27
Sewerage 27-28
Water Supply 28
Public Cleansing 29
Drainage 29
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Factories, Workshops & Outworkers 29-30
Rodent Control 30-31
Pigeons 31
Licences and Registrations, etc.
Hairdressers 31
Pharmacy and Poisons 31
Rag Flock 32
Pet Animals 32
Caravans 32
Children's Nightdress Regs 32
Atmospheric Pollution
Smoke Control Areas 32
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution
33-34
Fuels 34
Inter-Borough Smoke Control
Liaison Committee 34
Area Map (inside back covcrj
Inspection and Supervision of Food
Premises 34-35
Unsound 35
Sampling 36
Complaints 37-38
Bacteriological Examinations of
Food 38
Ice-Cream and Preserved Food 38-39
Pasteurised Egg 39
Milk Supplies 39
Designated Milk Licences 40
Condensed Milk Regs. 1959 41
Markets 41
Medicinal Baths
General 41
Section 43 of L.C.C. (G.P.) Act,
1953 41
Treatment Centre 41
Sterilisation 41
Disinfestation 42
Disinfection 42
Health Laundry 42
Coroner's Court and Mortuary 43