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Lewisham 1955

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

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INDEX
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Acts, regulations and orders 64
Area of borough 8
Atmospheric conditions 27
Births and birth rate . 8
Clearance areas 44
Coronary disease 16
Deaths and death rate 8
Deaths, causes of 10
Deaths under age 65 17
Disinfection and personal
cleansing 20
Dog nuisances 26
Drainage work 26
Dysentery 59
Exhumations 40
Factories. 35
Flies and mosquitoes 21
Food, adulteration of 50
Food inspection and supervision 47
Food poisoning 49
General statistics from 1901 18
Hairdressers, registration of 37
Health Services, general
provision of 20
Heating appliances 52
Heattreated milk 48
Housing :—
Building 41
Families rehoused 41
Housing Act, 1936 41
Housing Repairs and Rents Act,
1954 46
Icecream composition 48
Icecream grading 48
Immunisation 62
Infant mortality 9
Infant mortality statistics 12
Infectious diseases 52
Infectious disease visiting 56
Laboratory facilities 22
Legal proceedings 65
Lung cancer 17
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Mass miniature radiography 62
Maternal deaths 9
Milk, analysis of 47
Milk and Dairies Regulations,
1949 47
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 22
National Assistance Act, 1948,
s.50 26
Nuisances remedied 34
Offensive trades 52
Old people 26
Outworkers 38
Pet Animals Act, 1951 39
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1953 52
Pigeons 39
Poliomyelitis 57
Population 8
Prevention of Damage by Pests
Act, 1949 25
Rag Flock and Other Filling
Materials Act, 1951 39
Rateable value 8
Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restrictions) Acts 46
Rodent control 24
Sampling 50
Sanitary circumstances of the
area 32
Shops Act, 1950 52
Sickness, local 13
Slaughterhouses 52
Smoke nuisances 33
Social medicine statistics 13
Staff 2
Stillbirths 8
Swimming baths 26
Tuberculosis 59
Unsound food 49
Vital statistics 8
Water certificates 35
Water supply 30
Whooping cough 59