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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Municipal Dental Hospital 20
Ophthalmia neonatorum 16
Pneumonia 17
Population 1
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations 30
Puerperal fever 13
Puerperal Pyrexia 13
Rag and Bone Dealers 23
Rag Flock Act, 1911 34
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 24
Sanitary work 21
Scarlet fever 10
Schools, exclusions of children for infectious disease 9
Shelter 19
Slaughter-houses 29
Small-pox 9
Smoke nuisances 22
Stafi 34
Street markets and food 28
Tuberculosis 14
Typhus fever 14
Venereal Diseases 17
Verminous houses 23
Water supply 19
Whooping cough 14
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables :—
For whole district during 1927 and previous years (Table I.) 39
Cases of Infectious disease notified during 1927 (Table II.) 40
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1927 (Tables III. and V.) 41, 44 to 51
Infantile mortality during 1927 (Table IV.) 42
Notes to Tables III. and IV. 43
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1927 (Table VI.) 52
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table VII.) 53
Summary of Tuberculosis Certificates received (Table VIII.) 62
Summary compiled from the abstracts of their work prepared by the Sanitary
Inspectors for 1927 (Table IX.) 63
Housing Conditions 64 and 65
Summary of legal proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 65
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) 54 to 57
Return of work carried out at Tuberculosis Dispensary 58 to 61
Maternity and Child Welfare 66 to 71
Nursing List 72