London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hendon 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Other Premises
Inspection of premises licensed for public entertainment.
Inspection of registered clubs.
Inspection of public swimming baths and sampling and
testing of water for purity.
Inspection of hairdressing establishments.
Food Hygiene and Purity
Inspection of all places where food for sale is handledbakehouses,
production factories, retail shops, canteens,
school meals kitchens and centres, restaurants and cafes,hotels,
warehouses, dairies, licensed premises and hawkers' storage
premises.
Inspection of hawkers and food delivery vans.
Sampling of foods for bacteriological examination.
Inspection of food at all stages of preparation, storage
and sale for soundness and cleanliness.
Investigations of outbreaks of food poisoning.
Registering of premises used for
(a) manufacture or sale of ice cream
(b) manufacture or preparation of preserved foods.
Atmospheric Pollution
Daily attendance at smoke measuring stations and recording
of results.
Inspection of boilerhouses, furnaces and plant at industrial
and commercial premises and observations on chimneys.
Surveys of areas to be defined as Smoke Control Areas, supervision
of works of adaption and checking of estimates and
accounts.
Investigating complaints of grit and dust from chimneys.
Dealing with complaints regarding bonfires.
Dealing with smoke from railway engines.
Infectious Disease
Investigation into outbreaks of infectious disease, supervision
of disinfection and checking on contacts.
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