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Kingston upon Thames 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]

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(7) Shops and Offices 15
(8) Factories Act, 1937 16
(9) Camping Sites 17
(10) Atmospheric Pollution and Smoke Abatement 17
Table 1 - Tabulated Statement of Deposit of
Solids, Wind Direction and Rainfall 19
Table 2 - Atmospheric Pollution 1949 21
(11) Swimming Baths and Pools 22
(12) Eradication of Bed Bugs 22
(13 ) Complaints 22
(14) Rodent and Insect Pest Control 22
SECTION D.
Housing
General 24
SECTION E.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.
(a) Milk Supply 26
(b) Designated Milks 26
(c) Bacteriological Examination of Milk 26
(d) Ice Cream - Bacteriological Examination 27
(e) Meat and other Foods 27
Tabulated list of Condemned Foodstuffs 28
(f) Food Hygiene 29
(g) Underground Bakehouse 30
Food and Drugs Act, 1938 30
Tabulated Statement of Samples Submitted to the
Public Analyst during 1949 32
Conclusion 33
SECTION F-
Infectious Diseases.
Notifiable Diseases 34
Table VI - Notifiable Diseases during 1949 35
Table VII - Comparative Statement of Notifications
of certain Infectious Diseases 36
Scarlet Fever 36
Diphtheria36
Table VIII - Comparative Statement of Diphtheria
Immunisation during the years 1947, 1948 & 1949 37
Poliomyelitis 38
Po1ioncephalitis 38
Table IX - Brief Summary of Cases of Poliomyelitis
and Polioencephalitis 38
Enteric Fever (Typhoid and Paratyphoid) 39
Measles 39
Ophthalmia Neonato rum 39
Puerperal Pyrexia 40
Tuberculosis 40
Table X - Notified Cases, and deaths from
Tuberculosis in 1949 41
Scabies 42
Infestation by Head Lice 43