Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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By-laws under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891–
Paving of yards and open spaces in connection with dwellinghouses.–24lh
August, 1908.
Cleansing of Cisterns. 24th August, 1C08.
Water-closets–water supply to.–24th August, 1908.
For the prevention of nuisances arising from–
(1) Snow, ice, salt, dust, ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion, fish or filth
or other matter or thing in any street:
(2) Any offensive matter running out of any manufactory, brewery,
slaughterhouse, knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's
shop or any dunghill, into any uncovered space, whether or
not surrounded by a wall or fence;
(3) Keeping of animals in such place or manner as to be injurious
or dangerous to health.–24th August, 1908.
Regulations as to underground sleeping places under Section 17 (7),
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.–11th January, 1916.
By-law relating to fouling of footways by dogs.–March. 1928.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases of infectious disease
which came to the notice of the department during the period 1925-1929.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out on the adjoining page.
Table XXII.
1923 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
Diphtheria | 286 | 223 | 185 | 233 | 170 |
Erysipelas | 44 | 44 | 37 | 47 | 54 |
Scarlet fever | 214 | 132 | 180 | 241 | 227 |
Enteric fever | 17 | 11 | 24 | 28 | 7 |
Continued fever | – | – | – | – | 1 |
Puerperal fever | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
Puerperal pyrexia | – | 7 | 26 | 21 | 12 |
Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Encephalitis lethargica | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – |
Poliomyelitis | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 21 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 11 |
Measles | 117 | 1,026 | 71 | 997 | 381 |
German measles | 117 | 14 | 12 | 21 | 179 |
Pneumonia | 58 | 69 | 64 | 26 | 51 |
Malaria | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – |
Dysentery | 3 | – | – | 8 | 7 |
Anthrax | – | – | – | – | – |
Chicken pox | 149 | 198 | 206 | 210 | 229 |
Mumps | 120 | 64 | 153 | 150 | 73 |
Whooping-cough | 255 | 46 | 128 | 70 | 246 |