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 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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Smoke Abatement 41
Swimming Baths 41
Eradication of Bed Bugs 41
Schools 42
Dairies 42
Milk (Special Designations) Orders 43
Slaughterhouses 43
Bakehouses 43
Other Food Preparing Places 43
Factories 43
Housing:
Housing Statistics:
Inspection of Dwelling Houses- 45
Remedy of Defects without service of Formal Notice 45
Action under. Statutory Powers 45
Housing Act, 1936—Part IV—Overcrowding 46
Number of Houses and Flats erected during the year 46
Inspection and Supervision of Food:
Milk 46
Meat 47
Food and Drugs Act, 1938 47
Chemical and Bacteriological Examinations 48
Nutrition 49
Shell Fish (Molluscan) 49
Adoptive Acts and Bye Laws 49
Prevalence and Control over Infectious and other Diseases:
Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) 50
Incidence of Infectious Diseases in Age Groups and Wards 51
Cases of Infectious Diseases notified, 1915-1940 52
Monthly Incidence of Infectious Disease 53
Non-notifiable Diseases 54
Tuberculosis 54
Prevention of Blindness 56
Cases admitted to Wandle Valley Joint Hospital 57
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