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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Hydrophobia 58
Puerperal Fever—Number of Cases, Deaths 59
Small-pox 59
Vaccination 59
Erysipelas 60
Scarlet Fever 60
Continued and Typhus Fevers 61
Typhoid Fever—Notifications, Rate per 1,000 Persons living, Errors in Diagnosis,
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful Cases, Deaths 61
D:phtheria (including Membranous Croup)—Notifications, Deaths, Bacteriological
Examinations, Errors in Diagnosis, Isolation, Diphtheria Antitoxin (London)
Order, 1910 63
Whooping Cough—Deaths 64
Influenza Deaths 65
Measles—Deaths, Outworkers 66
"Spotted Fever" (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis) 67
Acute Polio-Myelitis or Acute Polio-Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica 67
Diarrhœa and Enteritis, Deaths, Notification of Zymotic Enteritis and Summer
Diarrhœa 68
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 70
Mortuary—Number of Bodies Received into Council's Cottage Street Mortuary 71
Canal Boats 71
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries and Outworkers 72
Table A—-Number of Inspections of, &c., of Bakehouses, Laundries, Workshops,
Workplaces, Places where Food is Prepared, Milk Premises, Cowsheds,
Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream Premises and Homeworkers'
Premises 72
Table B—Lists of Trades, Workshops, &c. *73
Tables C, D, E and F—Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State, Factories,
Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, Homework, &c. 75-78
Bakehouses—Inspections 78
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 79
Hairdressers' Premises 79
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 79
Smoke Nuisances 80
Ice Cream 80
Food and Drugs Acts—Results of Analyses, Legal Proceedings, Preservatives
in Butter; Preservatives in Margarine 81
Houses Let in Lodgings or Occupied by Members of more than one Family, Chinese
Quarter 84
Housing—Housing Acts, 1890—1919; Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations,
1910: Representations to Council under the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1909 81
Water Certificates 87
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Verminous Rooms 87
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 88
Schools—Inspection of Schools 88
Rag Flock Act 88
Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Tabulated List of Sanitary Inspections, &c., Overcrowding,
General, Legal Proceedings 88
Reports—
Free Milk Scheme—Report of Chief Clerk 98
Dr. W. C. P. Smith (Tuberculosis Officer) 99
Miss Alice E. Hall (Chief Health Visitor) 104
Mr. C. Hammond Williams (Clinic Dental Surgeon) 113
Index 114