Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1945
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Staff of the Department.
2. Introduction.
3. Vital Statistics:
(a) For Years 1920 to 1944.
(.b) For 1945.
4. Natural and Social Conditions.
5. Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
6. Housing.
7. General Provision of Health Services in the Area :
(a) Hospitals provided by Public Authorities.
(b) Local Services provided by Voluntary Organisations.
(c) Ambulance Service.
(id) Clinic Services provided by Public Authorities.
8. Maternity and Child Welfare :
(a) Ante-Natal Scheme.
(b) Welfare Centres and Home Visiting.
(c) Unmarried Mothers.
(d) Adoption Act.
(e) Premature Infants.
(f) Boarded-out Children.
(g) Obstetric Consultant's Service.
(h) Special Treatments.
(i) War-time Nurseries.
9. Maternity Hospital Accommodation.
10. Infectious Disease :
(a) Table of Cases.
(b) Comments on Major Infectious Diseases.
(c) Tuberculosis—Incidence and Deaths.
(d) Diphtheria Immunisation.
11. Sanitary Inspection of the District—Report by Mr. G. A.
Webber, Chief Sanitary Inspector :
(a) Nuisances found and remedied.
(b) Complaints.
(c) Abatement of Nuisances.
(d) Milk Sampling.
(e) Food Sampling.
(/) Meat Inspection.
(g) Shops Act Inspections.
(h) Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act.