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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Bag and Bone Dealers 57
Eag Flock Acts, 1911-1928 58
Houses Let in Lodgings 58
Lighting of Staircases 58
Canal Boats Acts 58
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions
Act, 1923 58
Seotion IV—Housing.
Statistics 59
Housing Conditions 61
Overcrowding 62
Housing Schemes—
Work of the Estates Committee 62
Section V.—Inspection and Supervision
of Food
(a) Milk Supply to
Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 65
Milk in Sealed Containers 66
Sampling out of Office Hours 66
Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923 66
Artificial Cream Act, 1929 69
(b) Meat and Other Foods 69
Unsound or diseased food condemned
and destroyed 69
Slaughter-houses 69
Fried Fish and Fish Curing
Premises 69
Ice Cream Premises 70
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens
70
Underground Bakehouses 70
(e) Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Act, 1928—
Samples taken 70
Prosecutions—
(a) Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Acts 72
(b) Public Health
atives &c in Food)
Regulations 1925 72
(c) Milk and Dairies Order,
1926 72
(d) Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 7?
Prosecutions—continued. page
(e) Public Health (Meat) Regulations,
1924 73
(f) & (g) Merchandise Marks (Imported
Goods) Orders 73
Wholesale Dealers in Margarine 73
Section VI.—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 78—80
Erysipelas 80
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 80
Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
81
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 81
Encephalitis Lethargica 82
Pneumonia 82
Malaria 82
Dysentery 83
Food Poisoning 83
Measles and German Measles 83
Tuberculosis—
New Cases and Deaths 87
Notifications 88
Prevalence and fatality for 10 years 89
Notifications and Deaths by Wards 89
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930 90
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925 90
Boarding out of Children 90
Provision of Beds, etc 90
Disinfection of Rooms 91
Home Visits and Enquiries 91
Care Committee 91
Dispensary 93
Artificial Light Treatment 93
Report by Tuberculosis Officer 93
Summary of work carried out 94