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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
Chislehurst 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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Section E. Housing.
New Houses 34
Rehousing 34
Moveable Dwellings 35
Section F. Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Food Sampling 38
Food Preparing Places 40
Unsound Food 41
Slaughterhouses 42
Piggeries 42
Milk 42
Ice Cream 42
Section G. Infectious Diseases.
Smallpox 44
Vaccination 44
Anterior Poliomyelitis 44
Scarlet Fever 44
Diphtheria 44
Diphtheria Immunisation 45
Paratyphoid 45
Puerperal Pyrexia 45
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 45
Measles 45
Whooping Cough 45
Tuberculosis 46
Food Poisoning 46
Dysentery 46
General 46
Section H. Other Services.
Nursing Homes 48
Public Conveniences 48
National Assistance Act, 1948 48
Public Mortuary 48
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics 51
„ II.—Causes of Death 52
„ III.—Sanitary Inspection of the Area 53
„ IV.—Factories Acts 54
„ V.—Tuberculosis—New Cases and Mortality 1952 56
„ VI.—Tuberculosis Rates 57
„ VII.—Infant Mortality 1952 58
,, VIII.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases, Sex and Age Distribution 59