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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 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE 17.—Summary of Premises Registered for Preserving Food or for the Manufacture, Storage or Sale of Ice-Cream.

TABLE 17.—Summary of Premises Registered for Preserving Food or for the Manufacture, Storage or Sale of Ice-Cream.

Type of BusinessPreserving FoodIce Cream
Butchers35
Tobacconists, confectioners/newsagents-86
Grocers and provision merchants .2169
Fishmongers23
General stores-9
Greengrocers and fruiterers-19
Ice-cream factories-2
Miscellaneous-5
58193

Table: TABLE 18.—Summary of Food Premises.

TABLE 18.—Summary of Food Premises.

Type of BusinessTotals
Hotels and boarding houses321
Restaurants, cafes and snack bars304
Grocers and provision merchants167
Canteens and clubs160
Public houses and wine bars136
Confectioners104
Stalls, street trading86
Greengrocers and fruiterers58
Schools and nurseries52
Butchers48
Wine merchants (off-licence)31
Bakers28
Chemists19
Fishmongers12
Coffee stalls and kiosks10
Milk depots5
Ice-cream manufacturers2
1,543

Table: TABLE 19.—Notifiable Diseases and Notifications.

TABLE 19.—Notifiable Diseases and Notifications.

* Notifiable DiseaseCases notified in whole Borough At ages—yearsCases removed to hospitalCases isolated at home
At all ages-11-2-3-4-5-10-15-20-3545-65-
Scarlet fever9---1161------9
Puerperal pyrexia22-------2182--202
Pneumonia1-----------11-
Dysentery1111--12-13-1147
Measles31152438445012310942118303
Whooping cough11-21-143------11
Scabies ...9-------26--1-9
Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary37-------3651942116
N on-pulmonary3-----------13-
Food poisoning121----11161-148
Typhoid fever ...2--------1-1-2-
Totals42872739455313615184610221063365
* There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable : Smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, typhus fever, relapsing fever, continued fever, plague, leprosy, hydrophobia, glanders, farcy, anthrax, malaria, induced malaria, paratyphoid fever, ophthalmia neonatorum, meningcoccal infection, erysipelas, acute encephalitis, acute poliomyelitis.