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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Aged and Infirm Persons 34
Altitude 7
Ambulance facilities 9
Area of Borough 7
Bacteriological examinations—
Ice cream 44
Infectious disease 21
Milk 43
Bakehouses 40
Births—
Notification of 11
Rates 11
Registered live 11
Registered stil 11
Bodies received at Mortuary 34
Bombed sites 28
Burial of the dead 34
Cancer 8
Chest Clinic 8
Cleansing Station 33
Committee, members of 5
Common Lodging Houses 24
Complaints 27
Day Nurseries 8
Deaths—
Classification with age distribution 13
Infantile by causes, and age distribution 15
Number and rate, all ages 11
Puerperal 14
Rate, infants under 1 year of age 14
From tuberculosis 16
Diphtheria 18
Diphtheria immunisation 18
Disinfection 33
Disinfestation 33
Drainage 28
Dysentery 17
Emergency Bed Service 10
Erysipelas 18
Factories 24, 26, 36
Factories Act, 1937-1948—Notices 36
Food & Drugs Act, 1938-1950—
Notices served 40
Work carried out 40
Food & Food Premises—
Bakehouses 40
Ice cream 44
Milk supply 41, 42, 43
Unsound food condemned, Table 47
Food poisoning 18
Food sampling 45
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General rate 7
Highways, area of 7
Hospitals in the Borough 9
Housing—
Houses let in lodgings 25, 29
Notices 25
Overcrowding 30
Underground rooms 29
Ice cream—
Registration of premises 44
Bacteriological examination 44
Chemical samples 45
Fat content 4
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations, 1947 44
Infantile mortality—
Causes, and age distribution 15
Rate 14
Causes, since 1940 15
Infectious Diseases—
Bacteriological examinations 21
Notifiable 17
Non-notifiable 19
Summary of notifications, 1950 20
Comparative figures for years
1920-1950 22, 23
Inspections by Sanitary Inspectors 24
Inquests 34
Licensed premises 45
Live births 11
Malaria 17
Marriages 8
Marriage rate 8
Mass Miniature Radiography 54
Maternal Mortality 14
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres 8
Measles 18
Milk-
Bacteriological examinations 43
Chemical samples 42
Distributors on register 42
Licences granted 43
New legislation 41
Registrations 41
Mortuary 34
National Asistance Act, 1948 34
Notices served 25, 36, 40, 41
Notifiable diseases, list of 17
Notifications of births 11
Notifications of infectious diseases 20
Nuisances remedied 26
Nurseries, day 8