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 Croydon]
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CONTENTS
A. - PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT
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Accommodation for confinements 12
Animals, diseases of 55
Animals, keeping of 51
Ante-Natal clinics 21
At Risk register 104
Bacteriological examination 131
Births 11,12
Blindness 82
Bye laws 65
Camping sites 52
Cancer 91
Census 11
Cervical cytology 38, 119
Chest clinic, work of 15
Child health centres 23, 109
Child minders 80
Chiropody 38
Clean air act 52
Committee, health 3
Communicable diseases 128,129
Congenital malformations 22, 103
Consumer Protection act 50
Convalescence 27
Cremation 121
Day nurseries 80
Deafness 37,105
Deaths 11,87,88
Dental treatment 31,117
Disinfection 53
Disinfestation 54
Drainage 50
Employment agencies 49
Epileptics 82
Elderly persons, rehabilitation of 112
Fabrics (Misdescription) act, 1913 51
Factories and workshops 45
Family Planning 79
Food complaints 63
Food and drugs act, 1 955 57, 60, 62
Food hygiene regulations, 1960 56
Food poisoning 130
Food supply 55
General practitioner attachment
schemes 114
Hairdressing 50
Health education 28
Health visitors, work of 25,106
Home helps 27,116
Home nursing 24,111
Home safety 30, 114
Housing 43, 83
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Ice-cream • bacteriological
examination of 60
Illegitimacy 11,22
Immigrants 83,120
Immunisation 26,132
Infant mortality 11, 93, 94, 98
Inspections Public Health Inspectors 63
Liquid egg 60
Marriages 12
Maternal mortality 11,98
Maternity homes 121
Meat inspection 58
Medical examinations 80, 81
Men's hostel 41
Mental Health 32, 122
Midwifery 24, 95
Midwives act 22
Midwives, work of 99
Milk supply 58
Mines and Quarries act, 1954 51
Mortuary 121
Mothercraft classes 21
National assistance 82
Neo.nataI deaths 11
Noise abatement 54
Notification of births acts 12
Nuisances 65
Nursing equipment, loan of 115
Nursing homes 121
Nurses agencies 121
Offices, shops and railway premises
act 46, 67
Outwork 46
Perinatal deaths 11
Pests 55
Pet Animals Act 54
Phenylketonuria 21
Pharmacy and Poisons Act 54
Poliomyelitis 133
Population 11
Post-natal clinics 21
Post-mortems 121
Premature infants 21, 102
Public health inspectors, work of 41, 63
Public health laboratory , service 131
Public health nursing services 24
Rag, Flock Act 54
Rats and Mice (destruction ) Act 55
Rehousing for medical reasons 83
Relaxation classes 21
Remedial works carried out 48
Riding establishments Act, 1964 52
River and streams, pollution of 50