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 Southwark, Borough of]
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Measles 83
Mortality for the last ten years 83
Number of deaths 83
Enteric Fever 83
Mortality for the last ten years 84
Number of cases notified 83
Number of deaths 83
Percentage of cases removed to hospital 84
Report on a case of Enteric Fever due to infected clothing sent home from
the Transvaal 84
Diarrhasa 85
Mortality for the last ten years 85
Number of deaths 85
Phthisis 85
Mortality for the last ten years 85
Number of deaths 85
Number of rooms disinfected after the disease 85
Our practice in regard to the examination of the house 85
Inspection of all houses in which a death has occurred 85
Disinfection 86
Number of rooms disinfected 86
Summary of inspections made by the Inspectors for infectious diseases 88
House to house inspections and general nuisances remedied in the various wards 89
Houses let in lodgings 97
Number on the register 99
Number of Inspectors employed 97
The portion of the Borough allotted to each 97
Summary of the work carried out 100
Workshops 103
Summary of the work carried out 103
Unsound food 104
Summary of sanitary works completed by the Ward Inspectors during the year 106
Summary of original inspections made in the several wards during the year 108
Legal proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act 109
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 124
Return of Samples taken during the year showing the percentage of adulteration 125
Police Court proceedings 127
Case of Weatheritt v. Drury 128
Legal proceedings taken with the results 132
Milksellers 148
Legal proceedings taken with the results 148
Slaughterhouses 149
Noxious Trades 149
Cowhouses 150
Smoke nuisances 150
Bakehouses 152
Special report on the Bakehouses of the borough 154
Mortuaries 164
Water supply 164