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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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INDEX
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Aged and Infirm Persons 36
Altitude 9
Ambulance facilities 11
Area of Borough 9
Atmospheric pollution 30
Bacteriological examinations—
Ice cream 45
Infectious disease 23
Milk 44
Births—
Notification of 13
Rates13
Registered live 13
Registered still 13
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 16
From tuberculosis 18
Diphtheria 20
Diphtheria immunisation 23
Disinfection 35
Disinfestation 36
Drainage 29
Dysentery 20
Emergency Bed Service 12
Erysipelas 20
Factories 38
Factories Act, 1937-1948—Notices 26
Food & Drugs Act, 1955—
Notices served 41
Work carried out 42
Food & Food Premises—
Bakehouses 26
Ice cream 45
Milk supply 42
Unsound food condemned, Table 48
Food poisoning 21
Food sampling 46
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General rate 9
Highways, area of 9
Hospitals in the Borough 11
Housing—
Houses let in lodgings 27, 33
Notices 26
Overcrowding 33
Underground rooms 32
Ice cream—
Registration of premises 45
Bacteriological examination 45
Chemical samples 46
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations,
1947— 45
Infantile mortality—
Causes, and age distribution 17
Rate 14, 16
Causes since 1948 17
Infectious Diseases—
Bacteriological examinations 23
Notifiable 19
Non-notifiable 21
Summary of notifications, 1958 22
Comparative figures for years 1929-1958 24, 25
Inspections by Public Health Inspectors 26, 41
Legal proceedings 37
Licensed premises 45
Live births 13, 14
Malaria 19
Marriages 10
Marriage rate10
Maternal Mortality 10, 16
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres 10
Measles21
Milk-
Bacteriological examinations 44
Chemical samples 43
Distributors on register 42
Licences granted 44
Registrations 42
National Assistance Act, 1948 36
Notices served 27,41
Notifiable diseases, list of 19
Notifications of births 13
Notifications of infectious diseases, summary 22
Nuisances remedied 28
Nurseries, day 10