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 Erith]
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Section C (continued). Page
7. Tuberculosis 23
(a) Treatment and Hospital Accommodation 23
(b) Tables (i) Particulars of New Cases
and Deaths 23
(ii) Quarterly Statements 24
8. Ear, Nose and Throat 25
D Hospital and Ambulance Facilities 25
E Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 25
1. Refuse Collection and Disposal 25
(a) Costs 25
(b) Details of Refuse Vehicles and Staff 26
(c) Details of Tonnage 26
2. Trade Refuse 26
3. Salvage 27
4. Water Supply 28
5. Closet Accommodation and Cesspools 28
6. Shops Act 1912—1938 29
(a) Offices 29
7. Camping Sites 29
8. Hop Pickers 29
9. Rag Flock Act 29
10. Smoke Abatement 29
11. Sanitary Inspection of the Area 30
(a) Routine Visiting 30
(b) Summary of Nuisances and Defects
Remedied during the year 30
(c) Health Education 31
(d) Eradication of Bed Bugs 31
(e) Cleansing of Verminous Persons 32
(f) Swimming Baths and Pools 32
(g) Mortuary 32
(h) Schools 32
12. Housing 32
(a) Inspection of Dwellinghouses during
the year 32
(b) Remedy of Defects during the year
without service of formal notices 33
(c) Individual Houses. Section 11 34
(d) Housing Act 1936—Overcrowding 34
(e) Rent and Mortgage Interest
tions) Act, 1939 34
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