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 33
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 34
Mortuary 22
Ophthalmia neonatorum 17
Pneumonia 20
Population 1
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 32
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulation, 1925 34
Public Houses 24
Puerperal fever 14
Rag and Bone Dealers 23
Rag Flock Act, 1911 23
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 25
Sanitary work 22
Scarlet fever 10
Schools, exclusions of children for infectious disease 20
Shelter 21
Slaughter-houses 33
Small pox 9
Smoke nuisances 23
Staff 39
Street markets and food 32
Tuberculosis 15
Typhus fever 15
Veneral Diseases 20
Verminous houses 24
Water supply 22
Whooping cough 15
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables:—
For whole district during 1925 and previous years (Table I.) 43
Cases of Infectious disease notified during 1925 (Table II.) 44
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1925 (Tables III. and V.) 45, 48 to 55
Infantile mortality during 1925 (Table IV.) 46
Notes to Table III. and IV. 47
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1925 (Table VI.) 56
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table VII.) 57
Summary of Tuberculosis Certificates received (Table VIII.) 66
Summary compiled from the abstracts of their work prepared by the Sanitary
Inspectors for 1925 (Table IX.) 67
Housing Conditions 68 and 69
Summary of legal proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 70
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 65
Maternity and Child Welfare 71 to 76
Nursing List 77