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(j) Licensing, inspection and supervision of seamen's lodging houses.
(k) Registration, licensing, inspection and regulation of common lodging houses.
(l) Licensing of dairymen to use premises as cow-houses.
(m) Licensing and inspection of slaughter-houses and knackers' yards.
(n) Offensive trades.
(o) Rag and bone dealers.
(p) Humane slaughtering of animals and poultry.
(q) Demolition of buildings.
(r) Ice cream vendors and premises.
(s) Duties concerned with infant life protection under Part 1 of the Children
Act, 1908.
(t) Smoke abatement.
(u) Fish curers and vendors of fried fish.
(v) Dairies, cowsheds and milkshops.
(w) Use of underground rooms for habitation.
(x) Protection of food.
B.—Public Health Legislation either enacted or coming into force during 1936:—
(Public Health (London) Act, 1936. An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to public
health in London. Came into force 1st October, 1936.)
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
In addition to the numerous leaflets which are distributed from the various Welfare
Centres, Tuberculosis Dispensary, etc., an arrangement is in force, in conjunction with the
Education and Public Libraries Committee, to make known the Health Facilities which
exist in the Borough by printing this information on the reverse side of the Monthly Lists
and the book covers which are issued to borrowers at the libraries.
Health Week.
The first Health Week for many years was held for one week during May. It was
inaugurated by a letter from the Mayor, Alderman R. F. W. Fincham, addressed to all
parents and prospective parents in the Borough. A full programme was arranged at each
Welfare Centre of lectures, exhibitions, demonstrations, informal talks, films and competitions
covering a wide field of subjects such as cooking for families of limited means, sewing,
laundry, food values with special reference to buying and housekeeping, simple psychology,
dental care and general maternal and infant welfare. The attendances recorded were between
6,000 and 7,000 adults, a very gratifying response to the efforts of the organisers which has
proved to have been followed by an increased interest in the maternity and child welfare work
in the Borough.
Hospital Accommodation.
A. Fever and Small Pox.—Hospital accommodation is provided by the London County
Council.