London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Willesden 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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CONTENTS
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Aged care of Introduction 1
Laundry service 34
Publicity of services 35 . Laboratory service 8
S.O.S. card scheme 35 Massage and special treatment establish-
Voluntary services 34 ments 9
Atmospheric pollution 23 Maternity and child welfare
Basement bakehouses 33 Ante-natal care 37
Bombed sites 27 Clinics 37
Child guidance 53 Welfare foods—distribution 39
Chiropody 57 Medical examination of staff 36
Common lodging houses 35 Mental health services 57
Coroner's Court 35
Midwifery service 39
Day nurseries 45
Dental service 54 Milk and Dairies 32
Disinfestation 27 Mortuary 35
Factories 32 National Assistance Act, 1948
Food Burials 35
Clean Food Guild 28 Removals to hospitals 34
Contaminated food 30Noise 33
Education in food hygiene
Food poisoning 29 Occupational health service 33
Ice cream 28 Outworkers and home workers 33
Improvements 29
Personal health services 37
Registration of premises
Sampling 30 Pet Animals Act, 1951 36
Unsound food 30 Prematurity 5
Hawkers licensing of 35 Flock and Other Filling Materials Act,
Health education 9 1951 36
Health visiting 41 Recuperative holiday homes 47
Home help service 44 Rheumatism 53
Home nursing 43 Rodent control 27
Hospitals Sanitary circumstances 18
Facilities 37 Liaison 37 Scabies 8
Housing School health service
Closing orders 20 Ascertainment 48
Defects 20 Audiometry 48
Demolition orders 20 Medical inspections 48
Housing Repairs and Rent Act, 1954 21 Orthoptics 48
New dwellings 20 Special schools 56
Notices served 21 Speech therapy 48
Overcrowding 20 Slaughterhouses 36
Survey
Immunisation against diphtheria 44 Staff
Medical examinations 36
Infant mortality Sanitary section 18
Neo-natal 3
1—12 months 4 Tuberculosis
Social class 4 B.C.G. vaccination 12
Wards 4 Chest clinic 13
Detection of cases 13
Infectious diseases Factories and workshops 13
Diphteria Hospital accommodation 13
Dysentery Mass miniature radiography 13
Food poisoning 12 Morbidity and mortality 12
Measles 10 Prevention 12
Meningococcal infection 11
Ophthalmia neonatorum 11 Vaccination against smallpox 43
Paratyphoid 11 Vermin 27
Pneumonia and influenza 10
Poliomyelitis 11 Vital statistics 3
Puerperal pyrexia 12 Births 3
Smallpox 11 Deaths 3
Whooping cough 10 Population 3