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 Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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Sanitary Work 29
House-to-house inspections 29
Water Supply to New Buildings 80
Ditto to Tenement Houses 30
By-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 31
Revenue Acts 31
Overcrowding 31
Itemoval of House Refuse 31
Removal of Manure 32
Common Lodging Houses Acts, 1851 and 1853 32
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 33
Bakehouses 33
Home Work 34
Places where Food is prepared for Sale 34
Slaughter House 35
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 35
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 35
Ice Cream 37
Unsound Food 37
Offensive fumes from factories 37
Smoke Abatement 37
Meteorology of London, 1913 38
APPENDIX.
Table I. Vital Statistics of whole Borough during 1913 and previous years 39
Table II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1913 40
Table III. Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1913 41
Table IV. Infantile Mortality during the year 1913 42
Table V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Inspections, &c. 43
Table VI. Ditto Notices served 44
Table VII. Proceedings during 1913 46
Table VIII. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework 47
(1) Inspections 47
(2) Defects found 47
(3) Homework 48
(4) Registered Workshops 49
(5) Other matters 49
Table IX. Legal Proceedings—Public Health (London) Act, 1891 60
Ditto London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902 50
Table X. Ditto Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 60
Table XI. Meteorology of London, 1913 51