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 8, 44
Ambulance facilities 21
Analyst, Public 16
Area of borough, wards, open spaces 17
Bacteriological examinations 37, 53
Bakehouses, Visits to 48
Basement rooms 43
Births—
illegitimate 22,27
numbers and rates since 1918 26
rates 19, 22, 26
registered live, and rate 19, 22, 26
registered still, and rate 22, 27
still—numbers and rates since 1929 27
Blind persons, care of 46
Bodies received at mortuary 46
Burials 45
Cancer, Deaths from 29, 30
Chemical examination of food 52
Chief officers of the Council 14
Clean Food Campaign 55
Cleansing and disinfecting 38
Clerical staff 16
Climatological summary 18
Clinic for old people 9
Closing and demolition orders 43
Committee, members of 14
Complaints 40, 42
Condemned food 55
Coroner's Court 46
Day nurseries 20
Deaths—
bronchitis 23, 30
cancer 23, 29, 30
classification, with age distribution 23
heart disease 23, 30
illegitimate children 27
infantile, and rates 24, 26, 27
infantile, with causes, age distribution 24
infantile, with causes, since 1939 25
maternal 28
measles 5, 23, 34
neo-natal 26, 27
number and rate, all ages 19, 22, 26
pneumonia 23,30
tuberculosis 19, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37
Disinfecting 39
Factories Act, 1937 49
Factories and bakehouses 48
Factory Inspectors 16
Factory Inspectors, work of 48
Flats erected 43
Food— 7, 51
condemned 55
inspectors 16
inspectors, work of 51
poisoning 55
sampling 52
summonses 54
unsound 55
Foreword by M.O.H. 4
General information 17
Holidays—old people 9
Hospitals in the Borough 20
Houses and flats erected 43
Housing 11, 43
Ice cream 7, 54
Infantile mortality 24 25 26, 27
causes, age distribution 24
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Infantile mortality—continued.
causes, since 1939 25
numbers and rates since 1918 26, 27
rates 19, 26, 27
Infectious diseases 5, 32
Infectious diseases—notifications 33
Inspectors—housing, food, factory and district 16
Legal proceedings 42, 54
Marriages 19
Maternity and Child Welfare centres 19
Meals—old people 9
Measles 5, 34
Meat and other foods—inspections 51
Medical examinations 46
Milk: Designation and licensing 52
Milk : inspections, samples, etc. 7, 51, 53
Mortality, infantile—see Infantile mortality.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 46
National Assistance Act, 1948 44, 45
Neo natal deaths 26, 27
Notices served 41, 42, 51
Notifiable diseases 32
Notifications—infectious diseases 33
Nurseries, Day 20
Outworkers 50
Overcrowding 44
Persons per acre (estimated average) 17
Pharmacy and Poisons 43
Poliomyelitis 5
Population 17, 22
Population, since 1918 26
Post-mortem examinations 46
Public Analyst 16
Public Health Annexe—attendance at 38, 39
Public Health Committee members 14
Public Health (Tuberculosis)Regulations, 1930 35
Rag Flock, etc., Act, 1951 50
Rat extermination 47
Rateable value and general rate 17
Registrars of births, deaths and marriages 15
Rodent control 47
St. Pancras Association for the care of the aged 8
Sanitary circumstances 40
Sanitary inspectors 16
Sanitary inspectors, work of 4 , 40
Scabies 38
School treatment centres 21
Staff 16
Statistics, Vital 19
Stillbirths 22, 27
Summonses—see Legal proceedings.
Tuberculosis—
Death rates 19, 31, 35, 36
deaths 19, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37
chest clinic 19
new cases 35, 36, 37
notification register 37
notifications 5, 35
prevalence and fatality for past thirteen years 36
Underground rooms 43
Unsound food 55
Verminous persons 38
Visiting of old people 8
Vital statistics 19
Water 42
Welfare centres 19
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