London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
This page requires JavaScript
As there is no registration except of milk dealers, and as regards those occupations mentioned in the following table as being regulated by bye-laws, a great deal of food must be prepared under filthy conditions even as regards general sanitation, but in addition adulteration and the disguising of deterioration has
become a highly scientific proceeding, and as regards adulteration, the absence of standards on which proceedings can be successfully taken very materially limits the process of sampling.
| District Numbers. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Totals. | ||
| Ice Cream Premises | 13 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 28 | 218 | |
| Fried Fish Premises | - | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 62 | |
| Slaughterers of Poultry | — | 2 | - | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 7 | |
| Slaughter Houses (Cattle) | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | 19 | ||
| Cowhouses | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 9 | |
| 16 | 16 | 7 | 28 | 45 | 20 | 23 | 33 | 19 | 25 | 22 | 8 | 26 | 20 | 308 | ||
| Coffee Houses, etc. | 5 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 26 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 30 | 167 | |
| Bakehouses | (above ground) | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7 | — | 1 | 2 | 57 |
| (underground) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 10 | 49 | |