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 Chislehurst]
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Riding Establishments Act, 1939 36
Rivers and Streams 36
Rodent Control 37
Sanitary Inspection of the Area 38
Shops Act, 1950 39
Smoke Abatement—Clean Air Act 40
Swimming Baths 45
Verminous Conditions and Uncleanliness 45
Water Supply 45
Section D. Housing.
Housing Inspections 50
Housing Act, 1949 51
Moveable Dwellings 54
New Houses 53
Re-housing 53
Rent Act, 1957 52
Slum Clearance 51
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bacteriological Examinations 62
Food & Drugs Act, 1955. Section 16 61
Food & Drugs Act, 1955. Food Sampling 59
Food Complaints 58
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 58
Food Premises 62
Inspections 58
Meat Inspection 61
Piggeries 62
Unsound Food 61
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over Infectious and Other
Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis and Vaccination 64
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation 64
Dysentery 65
Food Poisoning 65
General Remarks 64
Measles 65
Meningococcal Infections 65
Other Infectious Diseases 69
Pneumonia 66
Scarlet Fever 66
Smallpox and Vaccination 66
Tuberculosis, Mass X-ray and Chest Clinic 66
Tuberculosis Care Committee 68
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever 69
Whooping Cough 69
STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics 73
II.—Causes of Death 74
III.—Infant Mortality 75
IV.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age Distribution 76
V.-—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 77
VI.—Sanitary Inspection of the Area 78