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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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INDEX
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Aged and Infirm Persons 37
Altitude 9
Ambulance facilities 11
Area of Borough 9
Atmospheric pollution 30
Bacteriological examinations—
Ice cream 46
Infectious disease 23
Milk 44
Births—
Notification of 13
Rates 13
Registered live 13
Registered still 13
Burial of the dead 37
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 36
Disinfestation 37
Drainage 29
Dysentery 20
Emergency Bed Service 12
Erysipelas 20
Factories 39
Factories Act, 1937-1959—Notices 26
Food & Drugs Act, 1955—
Notices served 42
Work carried out 43
Food & Food Premises—
Bakehouses 26
Ice cream 46
Milk supply 43
Unsound food condemned, Table 49
Food poisoning 20
Food sampling 47
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General rate 9
Highways, area of 9
Hospitals in the Borough 11
Housing—
Houses let in lodgings 27,34
Notices 26
Overcrowding 34
Underground rooms 33
Ice cream—
Registration of premises 46
Bacteriological examination 45
Chemical samples 47
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations,
1959— 46
Infantile mortality—
Causes, and age distribution 17
Rate 14,16
Causes since 1950 17
Infectious Diseases—
Bacteriological examinations 23
Notifiable 19
Non-notifiable 21
Summary of notifications, 1960 22
Comparative figures for years 1931-1960 24, 25
Inspections by Public Health Inspectors 26, 42
Licensed premises 46
Live births 13,14
Malaria 19
Marriages 10
Marriage rate 10
Maternal Mortality 10, 16
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres 10
Measles 21
Milk-
Bacteriological examinations 45
Chemical samples 44
Distributors on register 43
Licences granted 45
Registrations 43
National Assistance Act, 1948 37
Notices served 27,42
Notifiable diseases, list of 19
Notifications of births 13
Notifications of infectious diseases, summary 22
Nuisances remedied 28
Nurseries, day 10