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 St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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CONTENTS—continued.
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Section V.—Inspection and Supervision
of Food.
(a) Milk Supply 60
Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 60
Bottled Milk 61
Sampling out of Office Hours 61
Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923 61
(ib) Meat and Other Foods 63
Unsound or diseased food condemned
and destroyed 63
Food Poisoning and Preservatives
63
Preservative in Butter 66
Slaughter-houses 66
Fried Fish and Fish Curing
Premises 66
Ice Cream Premises 66
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens
66
(c) Sale of Food and Drugs Acts—
Samples taken 67
Prosecutions—
(a) Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts 68
(b) Public Health
tives, etc., in Food) Regulations,
1925 69
(c) Milk and Dairies Order,
1926 69
Wholesale Dealers in Margarine 69
Section VI.—Prevalence of, and control
over, Infectious Diseases.
Notifiable Diseases 69
Notifications and Deaths from notifiable
diseases by ages 70
Do. by Wards 71
Smallpox 72
Vaccination 72
Scarlet Fever 73
Diphtheria 73
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever 73
Puerperal Fever 73
Puerperal Pyrexia 74
Erysipelas 74
Cerebrospinal Meningitis 75
Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum 75
Encephalitis Lethargica 75
Pneumonia 75
Malaria 76
Dysentery 76
Measles and German Measles 76
Hospital Accommodation 76
Tuberculosis—
New Cases and Deaths 78
Notifications 79
Prevalence and fatality for 10 years 80
Notifications and Deaths by Wards 80
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1924 81
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925 81
Boarding-out of Children 81
Provision of Beds, etc. 82
Disinfection of Rooms 82
Home Visits and Enquiries 82
Care Committee 82
Dispensary 84
Report by Tuberculosis Officer 84
Summary of work carried out 86
Section VII.—Other Services.
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 87
Disinfection for Institutions, etc. 88
Bacteriological Work 89
Appendix.
Table No. 1. Vital Statistics for 11
years 92
Do. 2. Registrar - General's
Short List of Causes
of Death 93
Do. 3. Births and Deaths in
Wards 95
Do. 4. Do., in certain large
towns and Metropolitan
Boroughs 96
Do. 5. Meteorology 97
Do. 6. Work carried out by
District Inspectors 98
Do. 7. Do.—Food Inspectors 99
Do. 8. Do.—Factory & Workshop
& Women Inspectors
100