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(iii) Food and Drugs
(a) Food Adulteration and Labelling
(b) Chemical Analysis and Bacteriological Examination of Food
(c) Restaurants, Canteens, Hotels, etc.
(d) Bakehouses
(e) Milk Depots and Dairies
(/) Inspection and Condemnation of Unsound Food
(g) Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers
(h) Butter and Margarine Premises
(i) Preserved Food Manufacturers
(j) Ice Cream Makers and Vendors
(k) Horseflesh Premises
(I) Slaughter of Animals
(iv) Housing
(a) Surveys of Areas
(b) Inspections of Individual Properties
(c) Building Licence Enquiries
(d) Underground Rooms
(v) Miscellaneous
(a) Cremation—Issue of Certificates Authorising
(b) Staff Medical Examinations
(c) Authentication of Medical Certificates of Inoculation
(d) Public Conveniences
(e) Public Mortuary
(/) Cleansing of Persons
(g) Physical Training and Recreation
(h) Health Propaganda
(vi) Statistics
(a) General Statistics
(b) Vital Statistics
(c) Birth, Death and Marriage Rates
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APPENDIX n,
THE STORY OF MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE IN ST. MARYLEBONE, 1906-1948.
(On the 5th July, 1948, the functions of the St. Marylebone Borough Council as Welfare Authority pass
into the hands of the London County Council under the provisions of the National Health Service Act, 1946).
The Pioneers.—In any account of work carried out in the Borough to safeguard the health of expectant
and nursing mothers and young children, it is necessary to give prominence to the important part
played by voluntary organisations throughout the whole period under review, but particularly in the
earlier years, in building up a welfare service second to none in its value to the community.
Official and voluntary elements have always existed side by side in the development of the scheme
in St. Marylebone, and opportunity will be taken in these notes to pay tribute to the pioneer efforts
of the St. Marylebone Health Society and other voluntary bodies who have devoted their energies
whole-heartedly to the welfare of mothers and infants during the past 42 years.
As far back as 1906, the first infant welfare clinic in London was inaugurated, in collaboration with
the Borough Council and the St. Marylebone Health Society, by the late Dr. Eric Pritchard, a foremost
paediatrician of his day, at the St. Marylebone General Dispensary, No. 30, Marylebone Lane. This
provided a great stimulus to others and was the means of bringing about the general setting up of
infant welfare centres and schemes not only in the metropolis but throughout this and other
countries.
Although not then known as a "Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme," other works in this
connection were commenced during that year, and in the discussions that arise from time to time as
to which was the first district to begin infant welfare work, the name of St. Marylebone is always
mentioned as at least being among the earliest in this field, as it has been in other major pioneering
works in the realm of public health.