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Orpington 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Section D. Housing.
Clearance Areas 36
Rent Act, 1957 36
Housing Statistics 37
Moveable Dwellings 37
Re-Housing 38
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bakehouses 48
Butchers' Shops 48
Food Complaints 44
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 44
Food Premises 45
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 40
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 46
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens 47
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
Poliomyelitis Vaccination 50
Diphtheria and Immunisation 51
Dysentery 51
Food Poisoning 51
General Remarks 50
Measles 52
Other Infectious Diseases 55
Pneumonia 52
Smallpox and Vaccination 52
Tuberculosis, Chest Clinic and Mass X-ray 53
T.B. Care Committee 54
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever 54
Whooping Cough 55
Section G. Refuse Collection and Disposal.
Refuse Collection and Disposal 58
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
I. Summary of Statistics 63
II. Causes of Death 64
III. Infant Mortality 65
IV. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age Distribution 66
V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—
Ward Distribution. Attack and Mortality Rates 67
VI. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 68
VII. Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors 69
VIII. Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions abated 70