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 4
Extracts from Vital Statistics 4
Maternal Mortality 4
Marriages 4
Deaths 4
Infant Mortality 5
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 10
Nuisances 10
Sanitary Accommodation at Public Houses 10
Water 10
Drainage 11
Combined Drainage 11
Building Licences 11
Public Conveniences 11
Public Cleansing and Salvage 11
Shops 11
Pet Shops 11
Barbers' Shops 11
Diseased or Infirm Persons 12
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 12
Disinfestation 12
Verminous Persons 12
Shelter 12
Rodent Control 13
Dog Nuisance 13
Pigeons 13
Noise 13
Atmospheric Pollution 14
Poisons 15
Factories 15
Inspections and Defects Found 15, 16
Out-workers 17
Rag Flock and other Filling Materials 17
Rag and Bone Dealers 17
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Fireguards 18
Street Photographers 18
Section d—Housing:—
Permanent Schemes 18
Barrow Hill Primary School 19
St. Marylebone Housing Association and Trust 19
Half-way Houses 19
Slum Clearance 19
Inspection of Dwelling-houses 19
Underground Rooms 19
Re-housing 19
Common Lodging Houses 19
Rent Restrictions Acts 20
Loans 20
Section E—Food :—
Food and Drugs Analysis 20
Milk 23
Butter and Margarine Premises 23
Ice-Cream 23
Preserved Food 24
Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers 24
Bakehouses 24
Restaurants, etc. 24
Retail Food Shops 25
Horseflesh 25
Slaughter of Animals 25
Other Offensive Trades 25
Unsound Food 25
Clean Food Campaign 25
St. Marylebone Clean Food Association 25
Section f—Infectious and other Diseases:—
Notifiable Diseases 26
Notifications 26
Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations, 1952 26
International Certificates of Vaccination and
Inoculation 26
Diphtheria Immunisation 26
Suspected Poliomyelitis 27
Sonne Dysentery 27
Food Poisoning Outbreaks 27
Tuberculosis:—
New Cases and Mortality 28
Notifications 28
Mass Miniature Radiography 28, 29
Venereal Diseases 29
Scabies 29
Impetigo 29
Disinfection 29
Bacteriological Examinations 30