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Bromley 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Sbction D. Housing.
Housing Inspections and Abatements 48
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 48
Housing Statistics 48
Moveable Dwellings 50
Rehousing 49
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bacteriological Examinations 58
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Food Sampling 52
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Section 14 56
Food Premises 57
Game Act, 1831 60
Meat Inspection 59
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 59
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949 58
Special Enquiries (Food and Drugs) 56
Unsound Food 57
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over, Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 62
Chest Clinic 67
Diphtheria 63
Diphtheria Immunisation 63
Dysentery 63
Food Poisoning 63
Mass X-Ray 66
Measles 63
Pneumonia 64
Puerperal Pyrexia 68
Scarlet Fever 64
Smallpox 64
Smallpox—Vaccination 64
Tuberculosis 65
Tuberculosis Care Committee 67
Typhoid Fever 67
Whooping Cough 68
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics 71
„ II.—Causes of Death 72
„ III.—Infant Mortality 71
„ IV.—Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths 74
„ V.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates 75
„ VI.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 76
„ VII.—Summary of the work of the Sanitary Inspectors 77
„ VIII.—Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions Abated 80