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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Holborn 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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Table:

Mr. BennettMr. ClarkMr. LarardMiss CharlesworthMiss StoukwellTotal
Brought forward4,7005,0976,33530219316,687
Visits re Infectious Diseases11915294201414980
Do. on School Reports...11......2
Scabies......2......2
Vermin11.........4
Other Visits—
Police Courts341......8
Various247516284211,050
Maternity—
Visits:
††Children under 1 year.........169297466
Do. 1 to 5 years.........51015
Expectant Mothers.........4064104
Re-visits :
Children under 1 year.........4316401,071
Do, 1 to 5 years.........189398587
Expectant Mothers.........18140158
Other Maternity Visits.........10593198
Attendances at Maternity Centres.........196187333
Total5,1305,7716,7171,6582,43921,715
†† .See page 97.

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Notices Served.
The total number of notices served for nuisances found in dwelling houses
and factories, workshops and workplaces, and premises subject to various By-laws.
including notices requiring annual cleansing of houses let in lodgings, was
1,273, viz. : —
Public Health (London) Act, 1891—
Intimation Notices 436
Statutory Notices 58
By-laws—
Houses let in Lodgings 750
General 1
London County Council (General Powers) Acts—
Verminous rooms 24
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1908 4
1,273

Table: The following table shows the work done to abate nuisances for which intimation noticeswere served:—

The following table shows the work done to abate nuisances for which intimation notices

were served:—

Houses.Factories, Workshops and Workplace
Water Supply—
Provided3—
Cisterns cleansed, repaired, etc,197
B 2