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
Animal Boarding Establishments Act 62
Animals, diseases of 52, 66
Ante-natal clinics 23
At risk register 109
Bacteriological examination 67,136
Births 11,12
Blindness 88
Caravan sites 53
Cancer 97
Census 11
Cervical cytology 40,126
Chest clinic, work of 15
Child health centres 25,114
Child minders 86
Chiropody 40
Clean air act 50
Committee, health 3
Communicable diseases 19,133,142
Congenital malformations 24,108
Consumer protection act 61
Convalescence 29
Cremation 128
Day nurseries 26, 39
Deafness 40, 110
Deaths 11, 94
Dental treatment 34, 124
Dialysis, home 88
Disinfection 51
Disinfectation of premises 52
Drainage 49
Drug dependency 90
Employment agencies 59
Epileptic 88
Elderly persons, rehabilitation of 119
Fabrics (misdescription) act,1913 61
Factories and workshops 55
Family planning 85
Food and drugs act, 1955 65, 69
Food hygiene regulations, 1960 64
Food poisoning 135
Food supply 63
General practitioner attachment
schemes 11 7, 120
Hairdressing 61
Health education 30
Health visitors, work of 28,111,116
Home dialysis 88
Home helps 29, 122
Home nursing 27,118
Home safety 30, 123
Housing 47
Ice-cream - bacteriological
examination of 68
Illegitimacy 11,24
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Immigrants,longstay 89,127
Immunisation 19,137
Infant mortality 11.94,99,100
Inspection - public health
inspectors 54,72
Liquid egg 69
Local land charges 51
Marriages 12
Maternal mortality 11,103
Maternity homes 128
Meat inspection 66
Medical examinations 86,87
Mental health 35,129
Midwifery 25, 101
Midwives act 24
Midwives, work of 27,104
Milk supply 67
Mines and quarries act, 1954 53
Mortuary 128
Mothercraft classes 23
National assistance acts 88
Neonatal deaths 11
Noise abatement 50
Notification of births acts 11,12
Nursing equipment, loan of 121
Nursing homes 128
Nurses agencies 128
Offices, shops and railway
premises act 56, 74
Outwork 56
Paediatric assessment 23
Perinatal deaths 11,99
Pest control 49
Pet animals act 63
Phenylketonuria 103
Pharmacy and poisons act 62
Planning applications 51
Poliomyelitis 138
Population 11
Post-natal clinics 23
Post-mortems 128
Premature infants 107
Prosecutions 57,60,69
Public health inspectors, work of 45
Public health laboratory, service 136
Public health nursing services 26
Rag flock act 62
Rats and mice (destruction) act 49
Rehousing on medical grounds 89
Relaxation classes 23
Remedial works carried out 58
Riding establishment act, 1964 62
Rivers and streams, pollution of 49
Schools 66
Scrap metal dealers act, 1964 62
Sewage disposal 81
Sexually transmitted diseases 19,142
Shops act 59