London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Marylebone 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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CONTENTS
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Members of the Public Health Committee 4 Section D—Housing :—
Section A—Statistics and Social Conditions :— Permanent Schemes 13
General Statistics 4 Grading of Housing Estates and Rents 14
Extracts from Vital Statistics 4 Fisherton Street Housing Estate 14
Maternal Mortality 4 Crawford Place Dwellings . 14
Marriages 4 Requisitioned Premises . 14
Deaths 4 " Half-Way" Houses 14
Infantile Mortality 5 St. Marylebone Housing Association 14
Mortuary 6 Inspection of Dwelling-houses 14
Crematorium . 6 Underground Rooms 14
Re-housing . 14
Section B—General Provision of Health Housing of Persons from Abroad 14
Services :— Common Lodging Houses 15
Staff 6 Rent Restriction Acts 15
Staff Medical Examinations 6
Laboratory Facilities 6
Representation upon other Bodies 6 Section E—Food:—
Conferences 6 Clean Food Campaign 15
Government Properties—Exemption from Food Analysis 16
Legal Requirements 6 Milk . 17
Care of Old People . 7 Butter and Margarine Premises 18
Ice-Cream 18
Section C—Sanitary Circumstances :— Preserved Food . 18
Sanitary Inspection 9 Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers 18
Sanitary Accommodation at Public Houses 9 Bakehouses . 19
Sewer Emanations—St. John's Wood 10 Restaurants, etc. 19
Water 10 Whalemeat 19
Drainage . 10 Horseflesh 19
Combined Drainage 10 Slaughter of Animals 19
Sealing-off Disused House Drains 10 Unsound Food 19
Building Licences 10
Public Conveniences 10
Public Cleansing and Salvage 11 Section F—Infectious and other Diseases:—
Shops 11 Notifications .. 20
Sales from Slot Machines—Contraceptives 11 Smallpox 20
Diseased or Infirm Persons. 11 International Certificates of Vaccination and
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 11 Inoculation . 20
Disinfestation 12 Food Poisoning Outbreaks 20
Verminous Persons 12 Tuberculosis :—
Shelter 12 New Cases and Mortality 22
Rodent Control 12 Notifications 22
Dog Nuisance 12 Venereal Diseases 22
Pigeons 12 Scabies ... 22
Mosquitoes 12 Impetigo 22
Noise 12 Disinfection 22
Atmospheric Pollution 12 Bacteriological Examinations 22
Poisons 13
Factories 13