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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

Wandsworth 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 3
Part 1—VITAL STATISTICS 13
Part 2—COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 19
Part 3—ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 24
Public Health Inspection 25
Housing 34
Food and Food Premises 37
Factories Act, 1961 47
Atmospheric Pollution 49
Miscellaneous Matters 51
Part 4—PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
Services for Mothers and Young Children 55
Other Personal Health Services 66
Part 5—MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE 78
Part 6—SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE 92
PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLEMENT Centre Pages
Plate A—Food Hygiene—Nail embedded in a piece of
crust.
Plate B—Tooting Child Health Centre which was opened
on 30th July, 1969.
Plate C—Tooting Child Health Centre—Interviewing a
young mother at a child health session.
Plate D—Battersea Training Centre, Thessaly Road,.
S.W.8.
INDEX 110