Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1934.

  • Chelsea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1935
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1934. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 III.—Sanitary Circumstances and Administration. PAGE Complaints 44 Closet Accommodation 44 Removal and Disposal of Refuse 44 Sanitary Inspection of the Borough 44 Magisterial Proceedings 47 Smoke Abatement 48 Fouling of Footways by Dogs 48 Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 48 Pigeons, Nuisance caused by 48 Premises and Occupations Controlled by Byelaws or Regulations 50 Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 50 Public Mortuary 52 Rag Flock Acts 52 Offensive Trades 52 IV.—Housing. Housing Statistics 53 Housing Conditions in the Borough 54 (a.) General Observations 54 (b.) Sufficiency of Supply of Houses 55 (c.) Overcrowding 57 (d.) Fitness of Houses 57 (e.) Unhealthy Areas 58 (f.) Byelaws relating to Houses and Houses Let in Lodgings 59 (g.) Housing Survey 59 V.—Inspection and Supervision of Food. Milk Supply 61 Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 62 Slaughter-houses 62 Bakehouses 62 Ice-cream Vendors 62 Fried Fish Vendors 62 Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale 62 Unsound Food 63 Food Poisoning 63 Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 63 The Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations 63 Margarine 63 Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food 64 Nutrition, Dissemination of Knowledge as to 64 VI.—Infectious and Other Diseases. (a.) Infectious Diseases Generally 65 Diseases Notifiable in the Borough 65 Notifications 65 Diphtheria 66 Scarlet Fever 67 Measles 68 Enteric Fever 68 Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery 69 Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 69