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Hammersmith 1957

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

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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 1
Staff 2
SECTION A -SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND STATISTICS: -
Births 5
Deaths 5
Infant Mortality 5
Marriages 4
Maternal Mortality 5
Population 4
Social Conditions 3
SECTION B- PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASES:-
Contacts and Carriers Sickness Benefit 6
Dysentery 7
Food Poisoning 7
Health Laundry 10
Malaria 7
Medicinal Baths 8
Notifications 6
Poliomyelitis 7
Tuberculosis 6
SECTION C - HOUSING
Overcrowding (Licences) 15
Permanent Estates 15
Re-housing 14
SECTION D - INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD:-
Designated Milk Licences 23
Food & Drugs Act 1955 16
Ice Cream 21
Ice Cream and Preserved Food Premises 22
Markets 20
Milk Supplies 22
Pasteurisation of Frozen Mixed Whole Egg 19
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations 1923/48 24
Sampling 17
Swimming Baths 20
Wormwood Scrubs Fair 21
SECTION E - SANITARY ADMINISTRATION:-
Coroners Court and Public Mortuary 26
Exhumation and Re-interment of bodies 25
Housing Repairs and Rent Act, 1954 25
L C C (General Powers) Act, 1952 Rag and Bone Dealers 27
L C. C (General Powers) Act, 1954 Hairdressers and
Barbers 27
Pet Animals Act 195 1 26
Pharmacy & Poisons Act 1933 and Pharmacy & Medicines
Act, 1941 28
Public Baths and Wash houses 27
Rag Flock & Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 26
Rent Act 1957 25
Staff Inspectorial 25
SECTION F - SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:-
Atmospheric Pollution 31
Clean Air Act 1956 33
Drainage 29
Dustbins 29
Factories 30
Public Cleansing 29
Rodent control 30
Sanitary Inspection 30
Water Supply 29