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Wimbledon 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Mosquitoes 54
Notices served 46
Nuisances Abated, Table of 48
Offensive Trades 53
Petroleum Acts 57
Rainfall 44
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 58
Refuse Collection 45
Rent (Restrictions) Acts 47
Schools 59
Sewage Disposal 45
Shops Acts 55
Smoke Abatement 58
Stable Refuse 54
Van Dwellings 49
Verminous Rooms 54
Water Supply 44
Workshops, Registered 52
Housing 60-63
Action under Public Health Acts 60
Housing Act, 1936 60, 62
Housing Conditions 62
Overcrowding 62
Statistics for the Year 60
Tents, Vans and Sheds 49
Inspection and Supervision of Food 64-66
Bacteriological examination 64
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 66
Inspection 65
Licences issued under Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923 and 1936 64
Milk 'Supply 64
Registrations 64
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933 65
Slaughter Houses 65
Prevalence of, and Control over Infectious and
other Diseases 67-84
Cerebro-spinal Fever 70
Chicken-pox 83
Diarrhoea (under two years) 72
Diphtheria 68. 81
Complications Noted 82
Immunisation 69
Dysentery 70, 83
Encephalitis Lethargica 70
Enteric Fever 69, 83
Erysipelas 70, 83
Food Poisoning 70
Infectious Diseases Hospital 80
Cases admitted, Table of 80
Revenue 80
Staff 84
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