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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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| Fruit Juice | 3 | Peanut, Butter | 2 |
| Fruit Pies | 3 | Peas, Split | 1 |
| Fruit Puree | 1 | Peel, Candied | 4 |
| Groats | 1 | Pepper | 7 |
| Honey | 4 | Pickles and Sauces | 18 |
| Horseradish | 2 | Potato Crisps | 3 |
| Ice Cream | 5 | Proprietary Foods | 2 |
| Ice Lollies | 8 | Proprietary Medicine | 14 |
| Jam | 22 | Pudding, Christmas | 11 |
| Jellies | 14 | Rice (including ground) | 6 |
| Lard | 2 | Salad Cream | 1 |
| Lemonade Powder & Effer vescing Tablets | 6 | Sausages & Sausage Meat | 30 |
| Soda, Bicarbonate of | 1 | ||
| Margarine | 3 | Soups | 16 |
| Marmalade | 4 | Soya Flour | 2 |
| Marzipan | 1 | Spaghetti, Canned | 2 |
| Meat Products | 10 | Spices | 3 |
| Meat Paste | 2 | Suet, Shredded | 5 |
| Meringue Mixtures | 4 | Sugar | 2 |
| Milk | 214 | Tea | 2 |
| Milk, Condensed | 3 | Vegetables | 11 |
| Mincemeat | 2 | Vinegar | 6 |
| Mustard | 2 | Welsh Rarebit & Mixture | 2 |
| Oatmeal | 2 | Wine, Alcoholic | 1 |
| Pastry Mixture | 3 | Yeast Flakes & Tablets | 2 |
| Others | 19 |
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following diseases are notifiable in the Borough: Anthrax, Cholera,
Continued Fever, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Encephalitis Lethargica, Erysipelas,
Enteric Fever, Food Poisoning, Glanders, Hydrophobia, Malaria, Measles,
Membraneous Croup, Meningococcal Infection (C.S.M.), Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Pneumonia Acute Primary, Pneumonia Acute Influenzal, Poliomyelitis (Acute),
Polioencephalitis (Acute), Plague, Puerperal Pyrexia, Relapsing Fever, Scabies,
Scarlet Fever (or Scarlatina), Smallpox, Tuberculosis (all forms), Typhoid Fever
(including Paratyphoid), Typhus Fever, Whooping Cough and Zymotic Enteritis.
All infectious diseases notified to the Department are visited by the Sanitary
Inspectors at the earliest opportunity, and disinfection is carried out wherever
applicable. Where the patient is nursed at home, Sanitary Inspectors visit to see
that home isolation is carried out satisfactorily, and at the end of the infectious
period the bedding, etc., belonging to the patient is removed for treatment at the
Disinfecting Station and the rooms sealed and fumigated.
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