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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality,
etc., 1957 13
Registered Causes of Death 14
Violence and Accident 15
Maternal Mortality 15
Infantile Mortality 15
General Provision of Health Services for the Area:
(Including Transferred Functions under the National Health Service Act, 1946).
Nursing in the Home 17
Domestic Help Service 17
Care of Mothers and Young Children 17
Immunisation and Vaccination 22
School Clinics 23
Venereal Diseases 23
Cleansing of Persons 23
Laboratory Facilities 23
Hospitals 24
Ambulance Facilities 24
Disinfection 24
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area:
Water Supplies 24
Drainage and Sewerage 25
Rivers and Streams 25
Closet Accommodation 25
Public Cleansing 25
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