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Orpington 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Section D. Housing.
Clearance Areas 36
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 36
Housing Statistics 36
Moveable Dwellings 37
Re-Housing 37
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bakehouses 48
Butchers' Shops 48
Food Complaints 44
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 44
Food Premises 46
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 41
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Section 16
46
Game Act, 1831 48
General 40
Ice Cream 45
Meat Inspection
47
Merchandise Marks Act 48
Milk and Dairies Regulations 47
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens 48
Special Samples—Milk, Ice Cream and Water 45
Unsound Food 46
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 50
Diphtheria and Immunisation 51
Dysentery 51
Food Poisoning 51
General Remarks 50
Measles 52
Other Infectious Diseases 53
Pneumonia 52
Scarlet Fever 53
Smallpox and Vaccination 53
Tuberculosis, Chest Clinic and Mass X-ray 54
T.B. Care Committee 55
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever 55
Whooping Cough 55
Section G. Refuse Collection and Disposal.
Refuse Collection and Disposal 58
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
I. Summary of Statistics 61
II. Causes of Death 62
III. Infant Mortality 63
IV. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age Distribution 64
V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases — Ward Distribution —
Attack and Mortality Rates 65
VI. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 66
VII. Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors 67
VIII. Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions abated 68