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City of Westminster 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Introductory Remarks iii
PART I.
A. Statistics.
Population 1
Census Statistics 1-5
Births 6
Notification or Births Act 7
Medical Inspection of Children under
School Age 8
Schools for Mothers 9
Deaths 10
Infantile Mortality 11
Statistics of Block Dwellings 12
Common Lodging Houses 13
Tables 14-26
B. Communicable Diseases.
Smallpox 27
Vaccination 27
Scarlet Fever 28
Diphtheria 28
Typhoid Fever 29
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 29
Plague 29
Tables 30-31
Tuberculosis 32
Insurance Act 43
Diarrhœal Diseases 51
Measles 52
Whooping Cough 52
Schools and Infectious Disease 53
Bacteriological Laboratory 54
Disinfection 55
Cleansing of Persons 55
Verminous School Children 55
Verminous Houses 56
Mortuaries 56
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PART II.
C. House Inspection, &c.
Defects Remedied 57
Legal Proceedings 58
Drainage, &c., Plans 59
Removal of Offensive Refuse 59
Housing Conditions—
Sanitary Survey of Houses 59
Converting Condemned Houses to
other uses 60
Underground Rooms 61
Houses Let in Lodgings 62
Water Supply 63
Revenue Act 63
Smoke Prevention 64
Offensive Smells 64
D. Workshops.
Number on Register 65
Defects 66
Outworkers 67
Infectious Disease 70
Laundries 70
E. Food Supply.
Restaurants, &c. 71
Ice Cream Premises 72
Bakehouses 72
Certification of Food for Export 72
Infectious Disease 73
Milkshops 73
Contamination of Food—Proposed
Legislation 73
Food Poisoning 74
Food and Market Inspection 74
Food Condemned 74
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts—
Samples Taken, Result of Analysis
and Proceedings 75
Milk and Cream Regulations 78
Details of Prosecutions 83