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Hammersmith 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 1-2
Staff 3
SECTION A—Social Conditions and Statistics:-
Births 5
Deaths 5
Infant Mortality 6
Marriages 5
Maternal Mortality 6
Population 5
Social Conditions 4
SECTION B—Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Diseases:-
Contacts and Carriers—Sickness Benefit 7
Food Poisoning 12
Health Laundry 13
Mass Badiography 8
Medicinal Baths 12
Notifications 7
Poliomyelitis 12
Tuberculosis 7
SECTION C—Housing:-
Building Licences 19
Overcrowding (Section 61) 19
Permanent Estates 17
Be-housing 16
SECTION D—Inspection and Supervision of Food:-
Clean Food Campaign—Hammersmith Clean Food Traders'
Guild 27
Designated Milk—Licences 26
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Meat and Other Foods 20
Ice Cream 25
Markets 25
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 25
Milk Supplies 26
Olympia Exhibition Halls 25
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Begulations, 1923/48 27
Sampling 22
Wormwood Scrubs Fair 25
SECTION E—Sapitary Administration:-
Coroner's Court and Public Mortuary 32
Exhumation and Be-interment of Bodies 30
Heating Appliances (Fire Guards) Act, 1952 33
Housing Bepairs and Bents Act, 1954 30
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1952—Bag and Bone Dealers 33
Pet Animals Act, 1951 32
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 32
Public Baths and Wash-houses 33
Bag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 32
Staff—Inspectorial 30