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Section. Date of Adoption.
Slaughterhouse, etc. (Metropolis) Act, 1874, and the Local Government Act, 1888:—
Slaughterer of Cattle 27th Oct., 1891
Baths and Washhouses Act. 1846:—
34 Management, Use and Regulations of Public Baths 24th June, 1903
Public Health Act, 1875:—
167 Regulating the use of the Market Place 24th June, 1903
Regulations made under:—
Factories and Workshops Acts and Public Health (London) Act, 1891:—
Bakehouses 31st Jan., 1902
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909:—
17(7) Underground Rooms 9th Feb., 1911
Public Health (London) Act and Housing Act, 1925:—
Houses divided into separate tenements, etc. 5th Mar., 1926
Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, has been applied to
Zymotic Enteritis.
Chickenpox was made a notifiable disease for six months from 1st April, and
again for a further period of six months from 1st October.
vi. Hospitals.
The Medical Officer of Health is asked to specify under this heading all the
hospital services, public or voluntary, within or without the area, which are used
by the inhabitants of the area. In an area such as London a correct list of these
is impossible because, naturally enough, the sick are not concerned with such
artificial boundaries as those of administrative counties and boroughs, but are
only interested in obtaining a bed in some convenient hospital. There are, for
example, no fever hospitals in Woolwich, and although cases generally go to the
Brook Fever Hospital in Greenwich, they may be admitted to the Park Hospital
in Lewisham, to the South-Eastern Hospital in Deptford, and, occasionally, to
hospitals as far afield as the Grove in Wandsworth, or the North-Eastern at
Tottenham. In the same way patients requiring general hospital treatment may
be admitted to any of the Metropolitan hospitals, and a study of the death returns
shews that 752 deaths of Woolwich inhabitants took place in 54 Metropolitan
institutions or general hospitals during the year.
In these circumstances, therefore, I have thought it advisable to limit the
information required by the Ministry to such hospitals as are actually situated in
the area and are not under the control of any public authority, thus excluding
St. Nicholas' Hospital, belonging to the London County Council, and the Military
Families' Hospital.