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Holborn 1952

[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
Births—
Notification of 11
Rates 11
Registered live 11, 12
Registered still 11
Bodies received at Mortuary 33
Bombed sites 28
Burial of the dead 34
Cancer 8, 16
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, 12
Puerperal 14
Rate, infants under 1 year of age 12, 14, 15
From tuberculosis 16
Diphtheria 18
Diphtheria immunisation 18
Disinfection 32
Disinfestation 33
Drainage 28
Dysentery 18
Emergency Bed Service 10
Erysipelas 19
Factories 24, 26, 37
Factories Act, 1937-1948—Notices 26, 37
Food & Drugs Act, 1938-1950—
Notices served 26, 40
Work carried out 40
Food & Food Premises—
Bakehouses 26
Ice cream 44
Milk supply 42
Unsound food condemned, Table 47
Food poisoning 19
Food sampling 19, 45
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General rate 7
Highways, area of 7
Hospitals in the Borough 9
Housing—
Houses let in lodgings 26, 29
Notices 26, 29
Overcrowding 29
Underground rooms 29
Ice cream—
Registration of premises 44
Bacteriological examination 44
Chemical samples 45
Recent legislation 50
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations,
1947 44
Infantile mortality—
Causes, and age distribution 15
Rate 12, 14
Causes since 1942 15
Infectious Diseases—
Bacteriological examinations 21
Notifiable 17
Non-notifiable 19
Recent legislation 18
Summary of notifications, 1952 20
Comparative figures for years
1922-1952 22, 23
Inspections by Sanitary Inspectors 24, 40
Inquests 33
Legal proceedings 34, 36
Licensed premises 44
Live births 8, 11, 12
Malaria 19
Marriages 8
Marriage rate 8
Mass Miniature Radiography 54
Maternal Mortality 14
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres 8
Measles 19
Milk—
Bacteriological examinations 43
Chemical samples 42
Distributors on register 42
Licences granted 43
Registrations 41
Mortuary 33
National Asistance Act, 1948 34
Notices served .25, 37, 40
Notifiable diseases, list of 17
Notifications of births 11
Notifications of infectious diseases, summary 20
Nuisances remedied 26
Nurseries, day 8