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St Pancras 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Aged persons, care of 9,43
Ambulance facilities 18
Analyst, Public 14
Area of Borough and open spaces 15
Bacteriological examinations 36, 53
Bakehouses, visits to 47
Barbers and hairdressers 6
Basement bakehouses 50
Basement rooms 42
Births—
illegitimate 20, 25
numbers and rates since 1918 24
rates 15, 20, 24
registered live, and rate 15, 20, 24
registered still, and rate 20, 25
still—numbers and rates since 1929 25
Blind persons, care of 45
Bodies received at mortuary 45
Burials 43, 44
Cancer, deaths from 27, 28
Chemical examination of food 52
Chief Officers of the Council 12
Cleansing and disinfecting 37
Clerical staff 14
Climatological summary 19
Closing and demolition orders 42
Committee, members of 12
Complaints 39, 41
Compulsory purchase orders 9
Condemned food 55
Coroner's Court 45
Cream, synthetic 54
Day nurseries 16
Deaths—
bronchitis 21,22,23,28
cancer 21,27,28
classification, with age distribution 21
heart disease 21, 28
illegitimate children 25
infantile, and rates 15, 22, 24, 25
infantile, with causes, age distribution 22
infantile, with causes, since 1939 23
maternal 26
measles 21,23,33
neo-natal 22, 24, 25
number and rate, all ages 15,20,24
pneumonia 21,22,23,28
puerperal causes 26
tuberculosis 15,21,23,28,29,35
Disinfecting 37, 38
Factories Act, 1937 48
Factories and bakehouses 47
Factory Inspectors 14
Factory Inspectors, work of 47
Food—
condemned 55
inspectors 14
inspectors, work of 51
poisoning 55
sampling 52
summonses 54
unsound 55
Foreword by M.O.H 4
General information 15
Health officers 14
visits by 10
Hospitals in the Borough 17
Housing 5
recommendations for 42
Ice cream 52,53, 54
Infantile mortality 15, 22, 23, 24, 25
causes, age distribution 22
causes, since 1939 23
numbers and rates since 1918 24, 25
rates 15, 22, 24, 25
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Infectious diseases 6, 30
notifications 32
Inquests at Coroner's Court 45
Inspectors—housing, food, factory and district 14
Intimation notices served 40, 41, 47, 51
Legal proceedings 41,54
Marriages 16
Maternal mortality 26
Maternity and Child Welfare centres 16
Measles 6, 32, 33
Meat and other foods—inspections 51
Medical examinations. 45
Milk—Designation and licensing 51, 52
Milk—Inspections, samples, etc. 51, 52, 53
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 45
National Assistance Act, 1948 43
Neo-natal deaths 22, 24, 25
Notices served 40, 41,47,51
Notifiable diseases 6, 30
Notifications—infectious diseases 32
Nurseries, day 16
Nursing Associations 16
Outworkers 49
Overcrowding 42
Persons per acre (estimated average) 15
Pet Animals Act, 1951 46
Pharmacy and poisons 42
Police Court proceedings 41, 54
Poliomyelitis 8, 32
Population of the Borough 15, 20
since 1918 24
Post-morten examinations 45
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 46
Public Analyst 14
Public Health Annexe—attendance at 37, 38
Public Health Committee members 12
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952 34
Puerperal deaths 26
Rag Flock, etc., Act, 1951 5, 50
Rat extermination 46
Rateable value and general rate 15
Registrars of births, deaths and marriages 13
Removal to hospital 31
Rodent control 46
Sanitary circumstances 39
Sanitary inspectors 14
Sanitary inspectors, work of 39
Scabies 37, 38
Scarlet fever 6, 32
School treatment centres 17
Staff 14
Statistics, vital 15,20,24,25
Statutory notices served 40,41,47,51
Stillbirths 20, 25
Summonses—see Legal proceedings.
Synthetic cream 54
Tuberculosis—
death rates 15,35
deaths 15, 21, 23, 28, 29, 35
chest clinic 16
new cases 34, 35
notification register 9, 36
notifications 9, 34, 35
prevalence and fatality for past fourteen years 35
Underground rooms 42
Unsound food 55
Verminous persons 37, 38
Visits to aged persons 10,40
Vital statistics 15, 20, 24, 25
Water 41
Welfare centres 16
Whooping cough 6, 32
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