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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
City of Westminster 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Samples purchased for analysis - 18 L4 + 42 Pharmacy & Poisons Act
Visits to premises 2831
Notices served l86
Samples found to be adulterated 51
Prosecutions 34
Convictions 23
Fines: £142.0.0d. Costs: £l71.3.Od.
AIR RAID SHELTERS (public and Communal Domestic)
Number of visits 3,873
ICE CREAM PREMISES
Premises on Register at 31st December, 1942 132
PRESERVED MEAT ETC. PREMISES
Premises on Register at 31st December, 1942 124
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER. 1936 & 1938
Licences issued 53
REGISTRATION OF DAIRYMEN & DAIRIES
Premises
Persons
On Register at 31st December, 1942.
169
239
Registered during the year
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1
Inspections made
126
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Notices served
10
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CORONER'S COURT AND MORTUARY
Bodies received 292
Causes of death:-
Drowning 1
Street accidents 21
Other accidents 46
Murder 2
Suicide 23
Natural causes 178
Misadventure 8
Miscellaneous causes 13
Inquests held 115
Post-mortem examinations 232