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. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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CONTENTS
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Members of the Public Health Committee 4
Section A—Statistics and Social Conditions:—
General Statistics
Extracts from Vital Statistics 4
Maternal Mortality 4
Marriages 4
Deaths 4
Infantile Mortality 6
Mortuary 6
Crematorium 6
Section B—General Provision of Health
Services:—
Staff 6
Staff Medical Examinations 6
Laboratory Facilities 6
Representation upon other Bodies 6
Financial Contributions to Voluntary
Organisations 7
Conferences 7
Care of Old People 7
Special Laundry Service 7
St. Marylebone Old People's Welfare
Association 8
Section C —Sanitary Circumstances:—
Sanitary Inspection 8
Nuisances Detected and Remedied 9
Sanitary Accommodation at Public Houses 9
Water 9
Drainage 10
Combined Drainage 10
Building Licences 10
Public Conveniences 10
Public Cleansing and Salvage 10
Shops 10
Diseased or Infirm Persons 10
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 10
Disinfestation 11
Verminous Persons 11
Shelter 11
Rodent Control 11
Dog Nuisance 11
Pigeons 11
Mosquitoes 11
Noise 11
Atmospheric Pollution 12
Poisons 12
Factories 12
Inspections and Defects Found 12
Out-workers 13
Outwork in Unwholesome Premises 13
Industrial Health Service 13
Methylated Spirit Drinking 13
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Section D—Housing:—
Permanent Schemes 14
Fisherton Street Housing Estate 15
Requisitioned Premises and Factory-made
Bungalows 15
"Half-Way" Houses 15
St. Marylebone Housing Trust 15
Inspection of Dwelling-houses 15
Underground Rooms 15
Re-housing 15
Slum Clearance 15
Common Lodging Houses 15
Rent Restrictions Acts 16
Section E—Food:—
Clean Food Campaign 16
Food and Drugs Analysis 16
Milk 18
Butter and Margarine Premises 18
Ice-Cream 18
Preserved Food 19
Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers 19
Bakehouses 19
Restaurants, etc. 19
Horseflesh 19
Slaughter of Animals 19
Unsound Food 20
Section F—Infectious and other Diseases:—
Notifications 20
International Certificates of Vaccination and
Inoculation 20
Smallpox 20
Undulant Fever 21
Food Poisoning Outbreaks 21
Tuberculosis:—
New Cases and Mortality 21
Notifications 21
Mass Miniature Radiography 22
Venereal Diseases 22
Scabies 22
Impetigo 22
Disinfection 22
Bacteriological Examinations 22
Appendix — St. Marylebone Clean Food
Association:—
Articles of Association 23
Code of Practice 24