London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Beddington and Wallington 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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Smoke Abatement 42
Swimming Baths 42
Eradication of Bed Bugs 42
Schools 43
Dairies 43
Milk (Special Designations) Orders 44
Slaughterhouses 44
Bakehouses 44
Other Food Preparing Places 44
Factories 44
Housing:
Housing Statistics:
Inspection of Dwelling Houses 46
Remedy of Defects without service of Formal Notice 46
Action under Statutory Powers 46
Housing Act, 1936—Part IV— Overcrowding 47
Number of Houses and Flats erected during the year 47
Inspection and Supervision of Food:
Milk 47
Meat 48
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act 48
Chemical and Bacteriological Examinations 49
Nutrition 50
Shell Fish (Molluscan) 50
Adoptive Acts and Bye Laws 50
Prevalence and Control over Infectious and other Diseases:
Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) 51
Incidence of Infectious Diseases in Age Groups and Wards 52
Cases of Infectious Diseases notified, 1915-1939 53
Monthly Incidence of Infectious Disease 54
Non-notifiable Diseases 55
Tuberculosis 55
Prevention of Blindness 57
Cases admitted to Wandle Valley Joint Hospital 58
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