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 62
Overcrowding 62
Housing Schemes—
Work of the Estates Committee 61
Section Y.—Inspection and Supervision
of Food.
(а) Milk Supply 66
Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 66
Milk in Sealed Containers 66
Sampling out of Office Hours 66
Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923 67
Artificial Cream Act, 1929 69
(b) Meat and Other Foods 69
Unsound or diseased food condemned
and destroyed 70
Slaughter-houses 70
Fried Fish and Fish Curing
Premises 70
Ice Cream Premises 70
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens
70
Underground Bakehouses 70
(c) Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Act, 1928—
Samples taken 71
Prosecutions—
(a) Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Acts 72
(b) Public Health
atives &c. in Food)
Regulations 1925 72
(c) Milk and Dairies Order,
1926 73
Wholesale Dealers in Margarine 73
Section YI.—Prevalence of, and control
over, Infectious Diseases.
Notifiable Diseases 73
Notifications and Deaths from notifiable
diseases by ages 74
Do. by Wards 75
Small Pox 76
Vaccination 76
Scarlet Fever 77
Diphtheria 77
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever 78
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 79
Erysipelas 80
Cerebro-spinul Meningitis 80
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Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
81
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 81
Encephalitis Lethargica 81
Pneumonia 82
Malaria 82
Dysentery 82
Measles and German Measles 82
Tuberculosis—
New Cases and Deaths 85
Notifications 86
Prevalence and fatality for 10 years 87
Notifications and Deaths by Wards 88
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930 88
Public Health (Preventionof Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925 88
Boarding out of Children 89
Provision of Beds, etc 89
Disinfection of Rooms 89
Home Visits and Enquiries 89
Care Committee 89
Dispensary 91
Artificial Light Treatment 91
Report by Tuberculosis Officer 91
Summary of work carried out 92
Section YII.—Other Services.
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station 93
Disinfection for Institutions, etc 94
Bacteriological Work 95
Appendix.
Table No. 1. Vital Statistics for 11
years 98
Do. 2. Registrar-General's
Short List of Causes
of Death 99
Do. 3. Births and Deaths in
Wards 102
Do. 4. Do., in certain large
towns and Metropolitan
Boroughs 103
Do. 5. Meteorology 104
Do. 6. Work carried out by
District Inspectors 105
Do. 7. Do.—Food Inspectors 106
Do. 8. Do.—Factory & Workshop
& Women Inspectors
107
Do. 9. Do.—Centre Superintendents,
W omen
Inspectors and Health
Visitors 108