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 Kingston-upon-Thames]
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SECTION C
Sanitary Circumstances
(l) Water Supply 15
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 15
(3) Rivers and Streams 15
(4) Closet Accommodation 15
(5) Public Cleansing 15
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area 15,16
(7) Shops 16
(8) Factories Act, 1937 17
^9 4 Camping Sites 13
(10) Atmospheric Pollution 18,19,20,
21,22
(11) Swimming Baths and Pools 22
112) Eradication of Bed Bugs 23
(13} Complaints 23
(lk) Rodent and Insect Pest Control 23,24,25
SECTION D
Housing
General 25,26
Statistical Statement, 1959 26
SECTION E
Inspection and Supervision of Food
(a) Milk Supply 27
(b) Designated Milks 27
(c) Bacteriological Examination of Milk 27
(d) Ice Cream 27,28
(e) Meat and Other Foods 28,29
(f) Food Hygiene - Food Hygiene Regulations 1955. 29,30
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 31,32
Tabulated Statement of Samples Submitted to
the Public Analyst during 1959 32,33
Merchandise Maries Act, 1926. 33
SECTION F
Infectious Diseases
Notifiable Diseases 34
Table IV. Notifiable Diseases during 1959 35
Table V. Comparative Statement of Notifications
of certain Infectious Diseases 36
SmallpOX 37
Scarlet Fever 37
Diphtheria 37
Poliomyelitis 38
Enteric Fever (Typhoid. or Paratyphoid) 38
Dysentery 38,39
Measles 39
Whooping Cough 39
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 39
Puerperal Pyrexia 39
Pood Poisoning 40
Tuberculosis 40
Table VI Notified cases and Deaths from
Tuberculosis in 1959 41,42