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 14
Laundry service 14
Voluntary services 14
Bacteriological examinations 5
Basement bakehouses 13
Bombed sites 11
Bronchitis
Morbidity and mortality 7
Cancer of the lung
Morbidity and mortality 7
Prevention and diagnosis 7
Treatment 8
Census 1951—household arrangements 8
Child guidance 21
Chiropody 22
Clean air 10
Common lodging houses 15
Coroner's court 15
Day nurseries 19
Dental service 22
Disinfestation 11
Diphtheria immunisation 19
Factories 13
Food
Contaminated food 12
Education in food hygiene 12
Food poisoning 12
Improvements in premises 11
Registration of premises 11
Sampling 12
Unsound food 12
Hawkers—licensing of 15
Health education 5
Health visiting 18
Home safety 22
Home help service 19
Home nursing 18
Hospitals
Facilities 16
Liaison 16
Household arrangements 8
Housing
Closing orders 9
Defects
Demolition orders 9
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954
and Rent Act, 1957 10
New dwellings 10
Notices served 10
Overcrowding 10
Slum clearance 9
Ice cream 5
Infant mortality 4
Infectious diseases
Asian influenza 6
Dysentery 6
Food poisoning 6
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Infectious diseases (cont'd)
Poliomyelitis 6
Puerperal pyrexia 6
Whooping cough 6
Laboratory service 5
Massage and special treatment establishments
5
Maternity and child welfare
Ante-natal care 16
Clinics 17
Medical examination of staff 16
Midwifery service 17
Milk and dairies 13
Mortuary 15
National Assistance Act, 1948
Burials 15
Removal to hospitals 14
Noise 13
Occupational health services 13
Outworkers and homeworkers 13
Pet Animals Act, 1951 16
Poliomyelitis innoculation 19
Prematurity 4
Public Health Laboratory Service 5
Rag, Flock and Other Filling Materials
Act, 1951 16
Recuperative holiday homes 20
Refuse disposal 8
Rheumatism 22
Rodent control 11
Sanitary circumstances 8
Scabies 5
School health service
Audiometry 21
Medical inspections 20
Special schools 21
Slaughterhouses 15
Smallpox vaccination 19
Staff
Medical examinations 16
Sanitary section 9
Swimming baths 9
Tuberculosis
B.C.G. Vaccination 8
Co-operation
Factories and workshops 8
Morbidity and mortality 7
Vermin H
Vital statistics
Births
Deaths
Population 3
Welfare foods 18