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MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS.
The provisions of Part IV of the Surrey County Council
Act, 1931, relating to the registration and management of
massage establishments, are in operation. There are 17 such
establishments in the Urban District.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 47.
The powers given under this section for securing the
removal of aged persons from insanitary conditions were not
utilised during 1952.
The one case dealt with under this Section in 1949 is still
living happily and voluntarily in a Home for elderly people in
the neighbourhood.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 50.
Under the above section, as from 5th July, 1948, the Council
became responsible for the disposal of the remains of any
person dying in the District, where suitable arrangements
would not otherwise be made, and during the year 1 burial was
thus arranged.
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
Increasing use is made of the opportunities for health propaganda
at the Clinics and Centres in the area and during the visits
made by the Health Visitors and Sanitary Inspectors. In addition
a number of talks were given by the Officers to various organisations
and a Health Exhibit dealing chiefly with the prevention of
various infectious diseases and accidents in the home was displayed
at the Regal Cinema for a week, thanks to the courtesy of the
management.
The material supplied by the Central Council for Health
Education and other bodies proved extremely useful, but the
sudden dissolution of the Ministry of Information's Mobile Film
Units was a great loss to those engaged in Health Education.
OTHER HEALTH SERVICES.
The local Council is represented on the S.E. Divisional
Health Sub-Committee of the County Health Committee, which
body has considerable delegated powers and responsibilities for
some of the allied Health Services. The Medical Officer of Health
for this District and his Deputy, who hold similar positions in the
Caterham and Warlingham Urban District, are also the responsible
officers for the Divisional Health Service, which deals with the
maintenance and detailed organisation of the following branches:-
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