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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INDEX
PAGES
Aged persons, care of 5
Ambulance facilities 18
Analyst, Public 13
Area of borough, wards, open spaces 14
Bacteriological examinations 39, 55
Bakehouses, underground 7
Bakehouses, Visits to 50
Basement rooms 46
Births—
illegitimate 19, 25
numbers and rates since 1918 24
rates 8, 24
registered live, and rate. 8, 16, 19, 24
registered still, and rate.19,25
still—numbers and rates since 1929 25
Blind persons, care of 48
Bodies received at mortuary 49
Burials 48
Cancer, Deaths from 27, 28
Chief officers of the Council 11
Cleansing and disinfecting 40
Clerical staff 13
Climatological summary 15
Clinic for old people 6
Closing and demolition orders 46
Committee, members of 11
Complaints 43,45
Condemned food 57
Coroner's Court 49
Day nurseries 17
Deaths—
bronchitis 28
cancer 27, 28
classification, with age distribution 20
heart disease 28
illegitimate children 21, 25
infantile, and rates 24
infantile, with causes, age and ward distribution 22
infantile, with causes, since 1939 23
maternal 26
measles 35
neo.natal 24, 25
number and rate, all ages 8, 16, 19, 24
pneumonia 28
tuberculosis 8, 16, 28, 29, 30, 36, 37, 38
Disinfecting 42
Drainage work 45
Factories Act, 1937 51
Factories and bakehouses 50
Factory Inspectors 13
Factory Inspectors, work of 50
Flats erected 47
Food—
condemned 57
inspectors 13
inspectors, work of 53
sampling 53, 55
summonses 56
unsound 53, 57
Foreword by M.O.H 4
General information14
Holidays—old people 6
Hospitals in the Borough 17
Houses and flats erected 47
Housing 47
Ice cream 55
Infantile mortality 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
causes, age and ward distribution 22
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Infantile mortality—continued
causes, since 1939 23
numbers and rates since 1918 24
rates 16, 24, 25
Infectious diseases 9,31
Infectious diseases—notifications 33, 34
Inspectors—housing, food, factory and district 13
Legal proceedings 45, 56
Marriages 16
Maternity and Child Welfare centres 16
Meals—old people 6
Measles 9,35
Meat and other foods—inspections 53
Medical examinations 48
Milk : inspections, samples, etc. 55
Mortality, infantile—see Infantile mortality.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 49
National Assistance Act, 1948 48
Neo.natal deaths 24, 25
Notices served 44, 45, 50, 53
Notifiable diseases 31
Notifications—infectious diseases 33, 34
Nurseries, Day 17
Outworkers 52
Persons per acre (estimated average) 14
Pharmacy and Poisons 46
Poliomyelitis 9
Population 14, 19
Population, since 1918 24
Post.mortem examinations 49
Public Analyst 13
Public Health Annexe—attendance at 40, 41
Public Health Committee members 11
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930 36
Rat extermination 49
Rateable value and general rate 14
Registrars of births, deaths and marriages 12
Rodent control 49
St. Pancras Association for the care of the aged 5
Sanitary administration 43
Sanitary inspectors 13
Sanitary inspectors, work of 9, 43
Scabies 40
School treatment centres 18
Staff 13
Statistics, Vital 16
Stillbirths 19, 25
Summonses—see Legal proceedings.
Tuberculosis—
Death rates 8, 16, 30, 38
deaths 8, 16, 28, 29, 30, 37, 38
chest clinic 17
new cases 36, 37,38
notification register 39
notifications 36, 38
prevalence and fatality for past twelve years .. 38
Underground bakehouses 7
Underground rooms 46
Unsound food 53, 57
Verminous persons 40
Visiting of old people 6
Vital statistics 16
Water 46
Welfare centres 16
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