London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southwark 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Hairdressers & barbers 61 Mental health service
Handicapped and Observation community care 58,113
Register 16, 22,103 day centres 53,113
Handicapped junior training schools 53,105,113
children 16, 22 residential accommodation i 51, 56
pupils 103 short-term care 56, 59
Health Committee 5 social clubs 56
Health special care units 55
education and home safety 15, 26, 46 staffing 51
48, 82,103 statistics 57
108 Midwifery service 20,115
service establishments 112 Milk sampling 86
surveys 106 Miscellaneous 96
visiting 21 Mobile health clinic 35
Health Services and Mortuary 69
Public Health Act, 1968 15
Home bathing service 69
Home help service 29,114
Home nursing 20
Home nursing equipment, loan of 28 Neo-natal mortality 19
Home safety 48 Notifiable diseases 66
Houses in multiple occupation 80 Notification of infectious diseases 66
Housing Nurseries & Child-Minders Regulation
Inspection of dwelling houses 79 Act. 16
Proceedings-Public Health Acts 79 Nursing Homes 34
Proceedings-Housing Act 1957 79
Observation (At Risk) & Handicapped
Register 22
Ice-Cream sampling 86 Occasional creches 113
Illegitimate births 14 Offensive trades 60
Immigrants-medical arrangements 33 Office, Shops and Railway Premises
Immunisation and vaccination 25,102,106 Act, 1963 70
Imported food 89-94 Outworkers 79
Incontinent laundry service 69
Infant mortality 14
Infant welfare Perinatal mortality 19
clinics 112 Personal cleansing stations 69
sessions 16 Personal health services 15
Inner London Education Authority- Pest control 82
School Health Service 101 Pet Animals Act, 1951 61
Inquests 70 Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 61
Phenylketonuria 23
Pigeons 61
Playgroups 18
Junior training schools 55,105,113 Poliomyelitis vaccination 24,102,106
Population 14
Laundry service 69 Post mortem examinations 70
Legal proceedings 81 Premature births 19
Loan of fireguards 29 Prevention of Damage by Pests Act,
home nursing equipment 28 1949 82
Prophvlaxis 24, 25,102
106
Maternal mortality 14, 19 Pupils on school rolls 102,105
Maternity and child welfare
centres 15,112
services 15, 99
Measles 24, 66
Medical Recuperative holidays 33
examination of staff 98 Relaxation classes 20
inspection of schoolchildren 105 Removal of remains of deceased
priorities for rehousing 81 persons 69
treatment of schoolchildren 105 Rent Act, 1957 81
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