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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| 12. | Number of houses erected by the Borough Council for working classes during year | Nil | Housing Act, 1935, at 31/12/36 Number closed or modified | 746+ | |
| 13. | Number closed or modified occupation approved under Sec. 84, H.A., 1935 | 36 | |||
| Number registered in Borough | 427 | ||||
| Number of inspections | 723 | 15. | Overcrowding (Housing Act, 1935)— | ||
| Number of prosecutions | — | Number of houses inspected under Sec. I of H.A., 1935 | 138 | ||
| Number of complaints remedied under the By-laws (not included under any other heading) | 24 | Number of families found to be living in overcrowded conditions, Sec. I of H.A., 1935 | 51* | ||
| 14. | Number of overcrowded fami-lies who have obtained alternative accomodation | 87 |
Infectious Diseases.
| Infectious diseases—cases notified under local orders (excluding cases coming to knowledge otherwise than by notification). | ||
| Disease. | Cases notified. | Period |
| Measles | Not notifiable | |
| German Measles | do. | |
| Whooping Cough | 76 | 1936 |
| Rheumatic Fever (0-16) | 3 | do. |
| Chicken pox | Not notifiable | |
| Zymotic Enteritis | do. | |
* This figure relates to families not previously recorded as being overcrowded,
t This figure is estimated having Tegard to the revised Regulations as to underground
rooms adopted by the Council during 1936.