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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Orpington 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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SECTION D. FACTORIES, OUTWORKERS, SMOKE ABATEMENT
SHOPS ACT, RODENT CONTROL & VERMINOUS
CONDITIONS AND UNCLEANLINESS.
Factories 31
Outworkers 31
Smoke Abatement 32
Shops Act.1950 32
Verminous Conditions & Uncleanliness 33
Rodent Control 33
Pet Animals Act, 1951 34
SECTION E. HOUSING.
Housing Acts 36
Re-housing 37
Moveable Dwellings 38
SECTION F, INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF
FOODS.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938 40
Slaughterhouses 44
Butchers' Shops 44
Bakehouses 44
Milk 45
Ice Cream 45
Restaurants, Hotels & Canteens 46
Unsound Food 46
Food Complaints 46
SECTION G. PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES,
Smallpox 48
Vaccination 48
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 49
Scarlet Fever 49
Diphtheria 49
Diphtheria Immunisation 49
Typhoid Fever 49
Puerperal Pyrexia 50
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 50
Pemphigus Neonatorum 50
Measles 50
Whooping Cough 50
Tuberculosis 50
Food Poisoning 51
Other Infectious Diseases 52