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Harrow 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]

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Imperial Drive (Tel. No. Pinner 7351). The Highways and Cleansing
Committee agreed to granting the County Council a lease for 99 years
of a parcel of land on the former Great Stanmore Sewage Farm as a
site for an ambulance depot.
The hospital car service, operated jointly by the British Red Cross
Society, the St. John Ambulance Association and the Women's Voluntary
Services, provides cars and drivers, who give their services voluntarily,
and by arrangement with the County Council takes many patients to
and from hospitals and clinics.
LEGISLATION IN FORCE
The following adoptive provisions and orders are in force in the
district:—
Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890: Parts II and III
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907: Parts II and III;
S.S. 52-65, 67 and 68 of Part IV; Parts V and VI; S.S. 81
(modified), 84 and 86 of Part VII; Parts VIII and IX;
and S. 95 of Part X
Private Street Works Act, 1892
Public Health Act, 1925
Sunday Entertainments Act, 1933
Orders under S. 33 Local Government Act, 1894:
Orders of Local Government Board of 23rd July, 1896;
1st August, 1896; 30th April, 1897; and 19th April,
1902
Order under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889:
Order to include the disease of pemphigus as a notifiable
disease (effective as from 17th August, 1935)
Order under the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907:
Order of Local Government Board, 6th April, 1910,
under S. 51, declaring the trade of fish-fryer to be an
offensive trade
Order of the Minister of Health of 16th April, 1936, under
S. 51, declaring the following trades, businesses or
manufactures to be offensive trades: rag and bone
dealer, blood drier, leather dresser, tanner, fat melter
or fat extractor, glue maker, size maker and gut scraper
Order under the Midwives Act, 1936:
Order of Minister of Health of 6th April, 1938, applying to
the Borough S. 6 which prohibits unqualified persons
acting as maternity nurses for gain.
Bye-laws made by the District Council in respect of the following
matters are in force in the district:
Removal of house refuse
Slaughterhouses
Regulation of Offensive Trades
Smoke abatement