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Orpington 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Section D. Housing.
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Clearance Areas 40
Common Lodging Houses 42
Housing Act, 1961 40
Housing Statistics 41
Moveable Dwellings 41
Re-Housing 42
Rent Act, 1957 40
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bakehouses 51
Butchers' Shops 50
Food Complaints 47
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 47
Food Premises 49
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 44
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Section 16 49
Game Act, 1831 51
General 44
Ice Cream 48
Merchandise Marks Act 51
Milk and Dairies Regulations 50
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens 51
Slaughterhouses and Slaughtermen 50
Special Samples—Milk, Ice Cream, Water and Egg
Products 48
Unsound Food 49
Sectin F. Prevalence of, and Control over Infectious and
other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis and Vaccination 54
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation 54
Dysentery 55
Food Poisoning 55
General Remarks 54
Measles 56
Meningococcal Infections 56
Other Infectious Diseases 58
Pneumonia 56
Scarlet Fever 56
Smallpox and Vaccination 56
Tuberculosis, Chest Clinic and Mass X-Ray 57
Whooping Cough and Immunisation 58
Section G. Refuse Collection and Disposal.
Refuse Collection and Disposal 60
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES
Table I. Summary of Statistics 64
,, II. Causes of Death 65
„ III. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and
Age Distribution 66
„ IV. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward
Distribution, Attack and Mortality
Rates 67
„ V. Notifiable Infectious Diseases—
Seasonal Incidence 68
,, VI. Summary of the work of the Public
Health Inspectors 69
„ VII. Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions
Abated 71