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 Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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iv.
PACE
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 74
Verminous Persons in Common Lodging-Houses—London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1907, Number of Persons Cleansed from Common Lodging Houses
within and without the Borough 75
Plague 75
Anthrax 76
Glanders—London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907 76
Hydrophobia 76
Puerperal Fever-—Number of Cases, Deaths 76
Small-pox 78
Vaccination—Vaccination Returns, 1916; The Public Health (Small Pox Prevention)
Regulations, 1917 78
Erysipelas 79
Scarlet Fever 80
Continued and Typhus Fevers 89
Typhoid Fever—Notifications, Rate per 1,000 Persons living, Errors in Diagnosis,
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful and Convalescent Cases, Deaths 81
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)—Notifications, Sex and School Age,
Deaths, Bacteriological Examinations, Errors in Diagnosis, Isolation, Diphtheria
Antitoxin (London) Order, 1910 83
Whooping Cough—Deaths 87
Influenza—Deaths 87
Measles—Digest of Measles and German Measles notified by Doctors and other
persons, Deaths, Schools, Closure of Classrooms, Outworkers and Disinfection 88
" Spotted Fever " (Epidemic Cerebro spinal Meningitis) 99
Acute Polio-Myelitis or Acute Polio-Encephalitis 100
Diarrhoea and Enteritis, Notification of Zymotic Enteritis and Summer Diarrhoea 100
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 102
Mortuary—Number of Bodies Received into Council's Cottage Street Mortuary 103
Model Dwellings—Grosvenor, Council and Hanbury Buildings 104
Common Lodging Houses 107
Seamen's Lodging Houses 107
Canal Boats 108
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries and Outworkers—Registers and Inspections 108
Table A—Number of Inspection of, &c., of Bakehouses, Laundries, 'Workshops,
Workplaces, Places where Food is Prepared, Milk Premises, Cowsheds,
Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses. Ice Cream Premises, Registered Houses
Let in Lodgings and Homeworkers'Premises 110
Table B—Lists of Trades, Workshops, &c. 111
Tables C, D, E and F—Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State, Factories,
Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, Homework, &c. 113
Bakehouses—Inspections 116
Slaughterhouses and Cowhouses—Renewals of Licences 117
Offensive Trades—Number in Borough, London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1908, Section 9 ; Rag and Bone Dealers Proposed By-laws 118
Coffee Shops, Eating Houses, Fried Fish Shops, Hotels, Restaurants, &c., London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908—Sanitary Regulations for
Premises used for the Sale, &c., of Food for Human Consumption ] 19
Hairdressers' Premises 119
Milkshops—Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1908, Power to Sanitary Authority to remove from or
refuse to enter on Register Names of Dairymen in Certain Circumstances 119
Smoke Nuisances 120
Ice Cream 120
Food and Drugs Acts—Results of Analyses, Legal Proceedings, Public Health
(Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912; Preservatives in Butter; Preservatives
in Margarine; Margarino Act, 1887, Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, and
the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907, Suggested Power to Examine Food and
Seize lUnfit Food Delivered to Public Institutions; Suggested Necessity for
the Abolition of the Warranty 121
Rag Flock Act, ,1911 126