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 Shoreditch]
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Milk and Cream Regulations, 1912 34
M;lk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922 35
Milk premises, cowsheds, etc., on register 34
Mortuary 24
Notification of Births Act 30
Ophthalmia neonatorum 16
Outworkers 30
Pneumonia 23
Population 1
Puerperal fever 14
Rag and Bone Dealers 26
Rag Flock Act, 1911 39
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 28
Sanitary work 25
Scarlet fever 10
Schools, exclusions of children for infectious disease 23
Shelter 24
Slaughter-houses 34
Small-pox 10
Smoke nuisances 26
Staff 39
Street markets and food 34
Tuberculosis 15
Tuberculosis Case Committee 16
Tvphus fever 15
Verminous houses 27
Violence, mortality from 5
Water supply 25
Whooping cough 15
Workshops on register 29
Zymotic diseases, deaths from 7
Zymotic death rate 7
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables
For whole district during 1924 and previous years (Table I.) 43
Cases of Infectious disease notified during 1924 (Table II.) 44
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1924 (Tables III. and V.) 45, 48 to 55
Infantile mortality during 1924 (Table IV.) 46
Notes to Table III. and IV 47
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1924 (Table VI.) 56
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table VII.) 57
Summary of Tuberculosis Certificates received (Table VIII.) 65
Summary compiled from the abstracts of their work prepared by the Sanitary
Inspectors for 1924 (Table IX.) 66
Housing Conditions 68 and 69
Summary of legal proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 67
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) 58 to 61
Return of work carried out at Tuberculosis Dispensary 62 to 64
Maternity and Child Welfare 70 and 71
Statistical Summary, Model Welfare Centre 72