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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Redbridge 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]

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This concern is shared and in the absence of agreement between
adjoining Authorities for the construction of a joint mortuary a new one
is now proposed for Redbridge.
The mortuary accommodated 708 bodies in 1969, an increase of 114
over the previous year and 223 above the figure for 1967.
Medical
Examination
of Staff

Table: The arrangements for medical examination of new staff where required and other staff where a determination of fitness or otherwise for continuance of their duties was necessary were continued during 1969 and the following table summarises the numbers and categories so examined:-

The arrangements for medical examination of new staff where required and other staff where a determination of fitness or otherwise for continuance of their duties was necessary were continued during 1969 and the following table summarises the numbers and categories so examined:-

1.Medical assessments977
2.Medical examinations:—
Staff (from No. 1 above)201
Teachers18
Students222
Authorities2
Total number of medical examinations443

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Roding
Valley
Pumping
Station
Following an application from a local firm to discharge certain
chemicals through this pumping station which in turn would have alleviated
some of the pollution problems of the River Roding, and in an
endeavour to ascertain there would be no resultant adverse effects on
the staff employed there, a very intensive study of the possible hazards
was made.
With the co-operation of the Borough Engineer, the Greater London
Council (Scientific Branch and the Department of Public Health Engineering),
H.M. Medical Inspector of Factories and the firm concerned,
Health and Welfare Department representatives under the Deputy Medical
Officer of Health and the Chief Public Health Inspector co-ordinated the
results of the research which included test sampling of the effluent passing
through the pumping station over a considerable period and in the
light of this were unable to elicit any health hazard.