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THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT.
The provisions of the Act relating to the care of
expectant and nursing mothers' and young children, the domiciliary
midwifery service, the health visiting service, the home
nursing service, arrangements for vaccination and immunisation,
the ambulance service, the arrangements for the prevention of
illness, care and after-care, and the domestic help service',
are administered by the Middlesex County Council as the Local
Health Authority. Day to day administration of these
services has been delegated to the Area Health Committee on
which your Council has been represented by the Chairman of the
Public Health Committed, (Councillor A.C. Hanry) and by
Councillor Mrs. H.E. McCarthy.
BACTERIOLOGICAL WORK.
The bacteriological work required for the district
was carried out either at the Central Public Health Laboratory,
Colindale, or at the Sab-Laboratory at Coppetts Wood Isolation
Hospital. The following specimens were examined
Throat or Nose. 117
Faeces 34
Sputum 15
Ice-cream 49
Miscellaneous 38
SANITARY SERVICES.
This part of the Report deals with those services
for which the Council, through the Public Health Committee and
Public Health Department, are directly responsible. They
include such matters as housing (in its relation to health),
food inspection and hygiene, the sanitary conditions in shops
and factories, rodent control, the investigation end control
of infectious disease, and the investigation and improvement
of conditions which are likely to affect adversely the
health of the community.
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