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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Aged and Infirm Persons 35
Altitude 9
Ambulance facilities 11
Area of Borough 9
Atmospheric pollution 29
Bactcriological examinations—
Ice cream 44
Infectious disease 23
Milk 43
Births—
Notification of 13
Rates 13
Registered live 13
Registered still 13
Bombed sites 31
Burial of the dead 36
Cancer 18
Chest Clinic 10
Committee, members of 5
Common Lodging Houses 26
Complaints 29
Day Nurseries 10
Deaths-
Classification with age distribution 15
Infantile by causes, and age distribution 17
Number and rate, all ages 14
Puerperal 16
Rate, infants under 1 year of age 12 16
From tuberculosis 18
Diphtheria 20
Diphtheria immunisation 23
Disinfection 35
Disinfestation 35
Drainage 29
Dysentery 20
Emergency Bed Service 12
Erysipelas 20
Factories 37
Factories Act, 1937-1948—Notices 26
Food & Drugs Act, 1938-1950—
Notices served 40
Work carried out 41
Food & Food Premises—
Bakehouses 26
Ice cream 44
Milk supply 41
Unsound food condemned, Table 47
Food poisoning 19
Food sampling 45
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General rate 9
Highways, area of 9
Hospitals in the Borough 11
Housing—
Houses let in lodgings 27, 32
Notices 26
Overcrowding 32
Underground rooms 32
Ice cream-
Registration of premises 44
Bacteriological examination 44
Chemical samples 45
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations,
1947— 44
Infantile mortality-
Causes, and age distribution 17
Rate 14, 16
Causes since 1945 17
Infectious Diseases—
Bacteriological examinations 23
Notifiable 19
Non-notifiable 21
Summary of notifications, 1955 22
Comparative figures for years 1926-1955 24, 25
Inspections by Sanitary Inspectors 26, 40
Legal proceedings 36
Licensed premises 44
Live births 13, 14
Malaria 19
Marriages 10
Marriage rate 10
Maternal Mortality 10, 16
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres 10
Measles 20
Milk-
Bacteriological examinations 43
Chemical samples 42
Distributors on register 42
Licences granted 43
Registrations 41
National Assistance Act, 1948 35
Notices served 27, 40
Notifiable diseases, list of 19
Notifications of births 13
Notifications of infectious diseases, summary 22
Nuisances remedied 28
Nuraeries, day 10