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 Ilford]
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SECTION D.— HOUSING. PAGE
Bye-laws relating to Houses, Lodgings, Tents, etc. 44
Rag Flock Acts, 1911 and 1928 44
Schools 44
Overcrowding 45
Unhealthy Areas 45
Housing Statistics 45
SECTION E.—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply 47
Dairies, Wholesale and Retail Purveyors, etc. 47
Licences—Graded Milk 48
Milk, Cream and Ice-Cream Sampling 48
Tubercular Milk 48
Inspection of Dairy Herds 49
Legal Proceedings 49
Registration 49
Meat and Other Foods:—
(а) Slaughterhouses 50
(b) Articles of Food Surrendered 50
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts (Adulteration, etc.) 50
Food Poisoning 50
Bakehouses 51
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts 51
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 51
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 52
SECTION F.— PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Infectious Disease Generally 52
Acute Rheumatism 53
Notifications in Institutions 56
Treated in Institutions 56
Table II—Summary of Cases of Infectious Diseases
Notified 57
Deaths from Infectious Diseases 58
Incidence of Chief Infectious Diseases 58
Smallpox 58
Vaccination 59
Smallpox Hospital Accommodation 32
Scarlet Fever 59
Diphtheria 59
Table of Nos. Schick Tested and Immunised 60
Enteric Fever 61
Cerebro-spinal Fever 62
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 62
Acute Influenzal and Acute Primary Pneumonia 63
Encephalitis Lethargica 63
Anterior Poliomyelitis 63
Puerperal Fever 63
Puerperal Pyrexia 63
Zymotic Diseases 64
Incidence and Deaths from Infectious Diseases in Age
Groups 65
Tuberculosis—New Cases and Deaths 66
Tuberculosis, Treatment of 67
Tuberculosis Care Association 68
Tuberculosis Regulations, 1925 68
Public Health Act, 1925, Section 62 68
Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act, 1890.. 68
Venereal Diseases 68
Notification of Non-notifiable Acute Infectious Diseases.. 70
Disinfection 70