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