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Orpington 1959

[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 36
Moveable Dwellings 37
Re-Housing 37
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bakehouses 48
Butchers' Shops 48
Food Complaints 45
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 45
Food Premises 46
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 40
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Section 16 47
Game Act, 1831 48
General 40
Ice Cream 46
Merchandise Marks Act 48
Milk and Dairies Regulations 48
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens 48
Slaughterhouses and Slaughtermen 48
Special Samples—Milk, Ice Cream, Water and Egg
Products 45
Unsound Food 47
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 50
Poliomyelitis Vaccination 50
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation 51
Dysentery 51
Food Poisoning 51
General Remarks 50
Measles 52
Meningococcal Infections 52
Other Infectious Diseases 55
Pneumonia 52
Scarlet Fever 52
Smallpox and Vaccination 52
Tuberculosis, Chest Clinic and Mass X-ray 53
Whooping Cough & Whooping Cough Immunisation 54
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
V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases— 66
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 71