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 IV.—Housing.
Statistics 60
Housing Conditions 61
Underground Rooms 65
Housing Schemes—
Work of the Estates Committee 67
Section Y.—Inspection and Supervision
of Food.
(а) Milk Supply 69
Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 69
Bottled Milk 70
Sampling out of Office Hours 70
Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923 70
Artificial Cream Act, 1929 72
(b) Meat and Other Foods 72
Unsound or diseased food condemned
and destroyed 73
Slaughter-houses 73
Fried Fish and Fish Curing
Premises 73
Ice Cream Premises 73
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens
73
Underground Bakehouses 73
(c) Sale of Food and Drugs Acts—
Samples taken 74
Prosecutions—
(a) Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts 76
(b) Milk and Dairies Order,
1926 76
(c) Merchandise Marks
ported Goods) No. 4 Order,
1929 76
(d) London County Council
(General Powers) Act,
1928 77
Wholesale Dealers in Margarine 77
Section VI.—Prevalence of, and control
over, Infectious Diseases.
Notifiable Diseases 77
Notifications and Deaths from notifiable
diseases by ages 78
Do. by Wards 79
Small Pox 80
Vaccination 80
Scarlet Fever 84
Diphtheria 84
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever 84
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 85
Erysipelas 86
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis., 87
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Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
87
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 87
Encephalitis Lethargica 88
Pneumonia 88
Malaria 88
Dysentery , 88
Measles and German Measles 88
Psittacosis 91
Yellow Fever 92
Tuberculosis—
New Cases and Deaths 93
Notifications 94
Prevalence and fatality for 10 years 95
Notifications and Deaths by Wards 95
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1924 96
Public Health (Preventionof Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925 96
Boarding-out of Children 96
Provision of Beds, etc. 96
Disinfection of Rooms 97
Home Visits and Enquiries 97
Care Committee 97
Dispensary 98
Artificial Light Treatment 99
Report by Tuberculosis Officer 99
Summary of work carried out 100
Section YII.—Other Services.
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 101
Disinfection for Institutions, etc. 101
Bacteriological Work 103
Appendix.
Table No. 1. Vital Statistics for 11
years 106
Do. 2. Registrar - General's
Short List of Causes
of Death 107
Do. 3. Births and Deaths in
Wards 109
Do. 4. Do., in certain large
towns and Metropolitan
Boroughs 110
Do. 5. Meteorology 111
Do. 6. Work carried out by
District Inspectors 112
Do. 7. Do.—Food Inspectors 113
Do. 8. Do.—Factory & Workshop
& Women Inspectors
114
Do. 9. Do.—Centre Superintendents,
Women
Inspectors and Health
Visitors 115