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Richmond upon Thames 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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CONTENTS.
Page.
Introductory Letter 1
List of Staff 2—3
SECTION A—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Social Conditions 4
Births 4
Deaths 4—6
Birth-Rate, Death-Rate & Analysis of Mortality (Table) 7
The Health of the People 8—10
SECTION B—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Laboratory Work 11
Ambulance Facilities 11
Ambulance Calls, Analysis of 12—13
List of Treatment Centres & Clinics 14
Health Visitors 15
Premature Infants 16
Care of Illegitimate Children 17—19
Nursing Homes 19
Wartime Nurseries 19
Home Helps, Maternity 20
Home Helps, Domestic 20—21
SECTION C—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 21
Sanitary Inspection 22—24
Sanitary Defects 25—27
Notices Served 27—28
Complaints Received 28—29
Food Inspection 29—30
Petroleum Acts 31
Disinfection and Disinfestation 31
Destruction of Insect Pests and the Use of D.D.T. 31—34
Diseases of Animals Acts 34
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 34—35
SECTION D—HOUSING.
Housing 36
Billeting and Evacuation 36—37
SECTION E—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 38
Milk (Special Designations) Order 1936 39
SECTION F—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER.
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notification of Infectious Disease 39
Assistance to Householders in Case of Epidemics 40
Precautions against Typhus and Smallpox 40—41
Admissions to South Middlesex Fever Hospital 41
Diphtheria Immunisation 41—44
Verminous Conditions—Scabies and Head-lice 44—45
Tuberculosis 45—47
INDEX 48—49