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Marylebone 1953

[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 3
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 3,6
Staff Medical Examinations 6
Representation upon other Bodies 6
Financial Contributions to Voluntary
Organisations 6
Conferences 7
Maternity and Child Welfare 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
Water 11
Drainage 11
Combined Drainage 11
Ventilation of Sewers 11
Building Licences 11
Public Houses 11
Sanitary Accommodation 11
Glass Washing 12
Public Conveniences 12
Public Cleansing and Salvage 12
Dustbins 12
Shops 13
Pet Shops 13
Diseased or Infirm Persons 13
Burial or Cremation of the Dead 13
Disinfestation 13
Verminous Persons 13
Shelter 13
Rodent Control 13
Dog Nuisance 14
Pigeons 14
Noise 14
Atmospheric Pollution 14
Poisons 15
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Factories 15
Inspections and Defects Found 15
Out-workers 16
Rag Flock and other Filling Materials 16
Fireguards 17
Street Photographers 17
Section d—Housing :—
Permanent Estates 17
Playground Areas in Housing Estates 18
Requisitioned Premises 18
Factory-Made Bungalows 18
Maintenance and Re-decoration 18
Slum Clearance 18
Inspection of Dwelling-houses 18
Closing Orders on Houses 19
Underground Rooms 19
Re-housing 19
Immigrants 19
Common Lodging Houses 19
Rent Restrictions Acts 19
Section e—Food :—
Food and Drugs Analysis 19
Milk 23
Butter and Margarine Premises 24
Ice-Cream 24
Preserved Food 25
Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers 25
Bakehouses 25
Restaurants, etc. 25
Retail Food Shops 25
Horseflesh 25
Slaughter of Animals 25
Unsound Food 25
St. Marylebone Clean Food Association 26
Section f—Infectious and other Diseases :—
Notifiable Diseases 27
Notifications 27
Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations,
1953 27
International Certificates of Vaccination and
Inoculation 28
Food Poisoning Outbreaks 28
Tuberculosis :—
New Cases and Mortality 28
Notifications 29
Venereal Diseases 29
Scabies 29
Impetigo 29
Disinfection 29
Bacteriological Examinations 29