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Holborn 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]

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House to house inspections 34
Water Supply to New Buildings 35
Ditto to Tenement Houses 35
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 36
Revenue Acts 36
Overcrowding 36
Removal of House Refuse 36
Removal of Manure 37
Common Lodging Houses Acts, 1851 and 1853 37
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 38
Bakehouses 38
Home Work 39
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 39
Slaughter House 40
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 40
Ice Cream 40
Unsound Food 41
Offensive fumes from factories 41
Smoke Abatement 41
Ditto "More Sunshine for London" 42
Meteorology of London, 1912 43
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1912 and previous years 45
Table II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1912 46
Table III. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1912 47
Table IV. Infantile Mortality during the year 1912 48
Table V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c. 49
Table VI. Ditto Notices served 50
Table VII. Proceedings during l912 52
Table VIII. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework 53
(1) Inspections 63
(2) Defects found 53
(3) Homework 54
(4) Registered Workshops 55
(5) Other matters 55
Table IX. Legal Proceedings—Public Health (London; Act, 1891 56
Table X. Ditto Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 56
Table IX. Meteorology of London, 1912 57