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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Public Health Committee 5
Representatives on Mid-Eastern Divisional Health Sub-committee 5
Representatives on the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board 5
Staff 6
Statistics and Social Conditions 11
Extracts from Vital Statistics 12
Vital Statistics :
Comparative Crude Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of
Mortality, etc., 1949 13
Registered Causes of Death 14
Violence and Accident 15
Maternal Mortality 15
Infantile. Mortality 15
General Provision of Health Services for the Area :
Laboratory Facilities 16
Ambulance Facilities 16
Nursing in the Home 17
Treatment Centres and Clinics :
Maternity and Child Welfare 17
Tuberculosis 17
Immunisation against Diphtheria 18
Immunisation against Whooping Cough 18
School Clinics 18
Venereal Diseases Clinics 19
Hospitals 19
Cleanliness 20
Disinfection 20
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area :
Water Supplies 20
Drainage and Sewerage 21
Rivers and Streams 21
Closet Accommodation 21
Public Cleansing 22
Sanitary Inspection of the Area 23
Statement of the Senior Sanitary Inspector for the Year 1949 :
Dwelling Houses 23
Milk and Dairies 23
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