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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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.