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 Holborn Borough.
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INDEX.
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Public Health Committee 6
Housing of the Working Classes Committee 6
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 7
Tuberculosis Care Committee 7
Staff 8
Statistics and Social Conditions Statistical Summary 9
Vital Statistics 9
Births 10
Deaths 10
Infantile Mortality 11
Deaths in Public Institutions 12
General Provision of Health Services 12
Sanitary Circumstances Removal of Offal 16
Sanitary Inspection of District 16
Notices served 17
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 19
Rag and Bone Dealers 19
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 19
National Rat Week 21
Drainage Works 21
Smoke Abatement 21
Inspection of Workshops 22
Factories 23
Outworkers 23
Rag Flock, Regulation of Sale and Use of 24
Shops Acts 24
Inspection of Private Swimming Baths 25
Housing
Statistics 25
Sousing Accommodation on L.C.C. Estates 26
Abatement of Overcrowding 26
Re-Housing 8
Removal Expenses 28
Section and Supervision of Food.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk Shops 28
Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936 28
Milk—Bacteriological Examination 29
Margarine 30
Bakehouses 30
Sale of Fish 30
Fried Fish Shops 30
Market Streets and Exposure of Food Generally 31
Street Trading 31
Ice Cream 31
Meat Regulations 33
Places where Food is Prepared for Sale 33
Inspection of Restaurant Kitchens 33
Unsound Food 34
preservatives in Food Regulations 36
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 36
Articles Analysed 36
Report of Borough Analyst for Year 1938 40
The Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 42
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 187 43
Registration of Food Premises 43
Notification of Food Poisoning 43
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933 43
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