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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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Report of the Chief Public Health Inspector for the Year 1957 :
Housing 26
Milk and Dairies 26
Ice Cream 27
Slaughterhouses 28
Food Premises 28
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 28
Unsound Food 29
Unsatisfactory Samples 31
Factories Act, 1937 32
Bakehouses 33
Workplaces, Shops and Offices 33
Complaints 34
Smoke Abatement 34
Infectious Disease and Disinfection 34
Offensive Trades 34
Rats and Mice 35
Notices 36
Sanitary Improvements 36
Summary of work done during the year 38
Swimming Bath 39
Schools 39
Outbreaks of Food Poisoning and Clean Food Campaign 40
Nutrition 40
Shell Fish (Molluscan) 40
Adoptive Acts and Bye-Laws 41
Prevalence and Control over Infectious and other Diseases:
Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) 42
Incidence of Infectious Diseases in Age Groups and Wards 43
Monthly Incidence of Infectious Disease 44
Tuberculosis 45
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