London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Bacteriological examinations.
Daily and weekly returns.
Disinfection of premises and articles.
Infected conveyances.
Infected bodies.
Notification by dairymen (Contacts to discontinue work).
Notification of infectious disease by practitioners and schools.
Prevention of spread of epidemic disease.
School attendance—Notification to Schools.
Statistics.
SANITARY INSPECTION.
Examination, repair and renewal of drains.
Factories and workshops—Inspection of premises with power and
premises without power, listed by the Home Office as Factories.
Houses let in tenements.
House-to-house inspection. Housing (Inspection of District)
Regulations.
Inspection following complaints.
Offensive refuse.
Offensive trades.
Outworkers.
Rag flock.
Rats & Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919.
Rent & Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts.
Shops Act, 1934.
Smoke Abatement.
Water supply—sufficiency and protection of supply, inspection of
wells, sampling, etc.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Deaths.
Disinfection.
Notifications.
Statistics.
VERMINOUS CONDITIONS.
Cleansing of verminous articles.
Cleansing of verminous persons.
Disinfestation of premises.
Prevention of lousiness and scabies.
Treatment of scabies, impetigo, etc.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Death rates—Classification of deaths.
Infectious diseases attack and death rates.
Statistical surveys generally.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948.
Burial of bodies of indigent persons.
Removal to hospital of elderly infirm persons,