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 Willesden]
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CONTENTS
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Aged—care of
Laundry service 31
Publicity of services 32
S.O.S. card scheme 33
Talks to Old People's Associations 32
Voluntary services 32
Atmospheric pollution 24
Basement bakehouses 30
Bombed sites 25
Child guidance 51
Chiropody 54
Common lodging houses 33
Coroner's Court 33
Day nurseries 43
Dental service 53
Disinfestation 25:
Factories 30
Food
Clean Food Guild 26
Contaminated food 27
Education in food hygiene 27
Food poisoning 14 & 27
Ice cream 26
Improvements in premises 27
Registration of premises 26
Sampling 28
Unsound food 28
Hawkers—licensing of 33
Health education 9
Health visiting 39
Home help service 42
Home nursing 41
Hospitals
Facilities 34
Liaison 34
Housing
Closing orders 20
Defects 21
Demolition orders 20
Housing Repairs and Rent Act, 1954 22
New dwellings 21
Notices served 21
Overcrowding 21
Slum clearance 20
Survey 19
Immunisation against diphtheria 42
Infant mortality
Neo-natal 5
1—12 months 4
Social class 4
Wards 4
Infectious diseases
Diphtheria 10
Dysentery 13
Food poisoning 14 & 27
Measles 10
Meningococcal infection 13
Ophthalmia neonatorum 13
Paratyphoid 13
Pneumonia and influenza 11
Poliomyelitis 11
Puerperal pyrexia 14
Smallpox 13
Whooping cough 10
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Introduction 1
Laboratory service 8
Massage and special treatment establishments
9
Maternity and child welfare
Ante-natal care 34
Clinics 35
Welfare foods—distribution 37
Medical examination of staff 34
Midwifery service 37
Milk and Dairies 29
Mortuary 33
National Assistance Act, 1948
Burials 33
Removals to hospitals 31
Noise 31
Occupational health services 31
Outworkers and homeworkers 31
Personal health services 34
Pet Animals Act, 1951 34
Prematurity 5
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials
Act, 1951 33
Recuperative holiday homes 45
Rheumatism 52
Rodent control 25
Sanitary circumstances 18
Scabies 8
School health service
Ascertainment 51
Audiometry 46
Medical inspections 47
Orthoptics 45
Special schools 51
Speech therapy 50
Tuberculin testing 45
Slaughterhouses 33
Staff
Medical examinations 34
Sanitary section 19
Tuberculosis
B.C.G. vaccination 15
Chest clinic 15
Factories and workshops 15
Hospital accommodation 15
Missed notifications 15
Morbidity and mortality 14
Prevention 14
Vaccination against smallpox 41
Vermin 25
Vital statistics
Births 3
Deaths 3
Population 3