Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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Section D. Housing. page
Clearance Areas 40
Rent Act, 1957 40
Common Lodging Houses 42
Housing Act, 1961 40
Housing Statistics 41
Moveable Dwellings 41
Overcrowding 42
Re-Housing 41
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bakehouses 50
Butchers' Shops 50
Food Complaints 47
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 47
Food Premises 48
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 44
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Section 16 49
Game Act, 1831 50
General 44
Ice Cream 48
Merchandise Marks Act 50
Milk and Dairies Regulations 49
Restaurants, Hotels and Canteens 50
Slaughterhouses and Slaughtermen 49
Special Samples—Milk, Ice Cream, Water and Egg
Products 48
Unsound Food 49
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control over Infectious and
other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis and Vaccination 52
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation 52
Dysentery 52
Food Poisoning 53
General Remarks 52
Measles 53
Meningococcal Infections 53
Other Infectious Diseases 56
Pneumonia 53
Scarlet Fever 54
Smallpox and Vaccination 54
Tuberculosis, Chest Clinic and Mass X-Ray 54
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever 55
Whooping Cough and Immunisation 56
Section G. Refuse Collection and Disposal. 58
Section H. Biggin Hill Civil Airport. 62
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