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Orpington 1960

[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 46
Butchers' Shops 45
Food Complaints 42
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 42
Food Premises 44
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 40
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Section 16 44
Game Act, 1831 46
General 40
Ice Cream 43
Merchandise Marks Act 46
Milk and Dairies Regulations 45
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens 45
Slaughterhouses and Slaughtermen 45
Special Samples—Milk, Ice Cream, Water and Egg
Products 43
Unsound Food 44
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 48
Poliomyelitis Vaccination 48
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation 48
Dysentery 49
Food Poisoning 49
General Remarks 48
Measles 49
Meningococcal Infections 49
Other Infectious Diseases 52
Pneumonia 50
Scarlet Fever 50
Smallpox and Vaccination 50
Tuberculosis, Chest Clinic and Mass X-ray 50
Whooping Cough & Whooping Cough Immunisation 52
Section G. Refuse Collection and Disposal.
Refuse Collection and Disposal 54
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
I. Summary of Statistics 59
II. Causes of Death 60
III. Infant Mortality 61
IV. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age Distribution 62
V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—
Ward Distribution. Attack and Mortality Rates 63
VI. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 64
VII. Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors 65
VIII. Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions abated 67