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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 18.—Summary of Premises Registered for Preserving Food or for the Manufacture, Storage or Sale of Ice-Cream.
| Type of Business | Preserving Food | Ice Cream |
|---|---|---|
| Butchers | 33 | - |
| Tobacconists, confectioners/newsagents | — | 95 |
| Grocers and provision merchants | 21 | 60 |
| Fishmongers | 5 | 3 |
| General stores | — | 11 |
| Greengrocers and fruiterers | — | 19 |
| Ice-cream factories | — | 2 |
| Miscellaneous | — | 2 |
| 59 | 192 |
TABLE 19.—Summary of Food Premises.
| Type of Business | Totals |
|---|---|
| Hotels and boarding houses | 320 |
| Restaurants, cafes and snack bars | 307 |
| Grocers and provision merchants | 166 |
| Canteens and clubs | 169 |
| Public houses and wine bars | 135 |
| Confectioners | 104 |
| Stalls, street trading | 86 |
| Greengrocers and fruiterers | 56 |
| Schools and nurseries | 52 |
| Butchers | 43 |
| Wine merchants (off-licence) | 32 |
| Bakers | 27 |
| Chemists | 20 |
| Fishmongers | 12 |
| Coffee stalls and kiosks | 10 |
| Milk depots | 5 |
| Ice-cream manufacturers | 2 |
| 1,551 |
TABLE 20.—Notifiable Diseases and Notifications.
| * Notifiable Disease | Cases notified in whole Borough | Cases removed to hospital | Cases isolated at home | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages—years | ||||||||||||||
| -1 | 1- | 2— | 3— | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 35— | 45- | 65— | ||||
| Scarlet fever | 9 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 8 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | — |
| Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | — |
| Dysentery | 4 | 1 | — | — | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| Measles | 140 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 49 | 4 | 5 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 140 |
| Erysiphelas | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 2 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Whooping cough | 4 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 |
| Scabies | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 8 | |
| Tuberculosis: | |||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 35 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 17 | |
| Non-pulmonary | 7 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 5 | 2 | |
| Food poisoning | 15 | _ | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 13 | |
| Typhoid fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | — |
| Totals | 233 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 27 | 26 | 53 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 12 | 28 | 5 | 35 | 198 |
* There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable: smallpox,
diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, typhus fever, relapsing fever, plague, leprosy, hydrophobia,
glanders, farcy, anthrax, malaria, induced malaria, paratyphoid fever, meningcoccal
infection, acute encephalitis, acute poliomyelitis.