[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of].

  • Hornsey (London, England). Municipal Borough.
Date:
[1956]
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    in certain circumstances that whole houses may be closed instead of being demolished. Power to determine these Closing Orders is also given. Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1949 imposes on the Local Authority the duty of making closing orders instead of demolition orders for the preservation of houses of architectural or historical importance. 4. Overcrowding. Housing Act, 1936, Sec. 57(2) and 59(1). A register of the permitted numbers of occupiers of dwellings in the Borough. 5. Certificates of Disrepair. Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954, Sec. 26 and 27. (A report on this subject is given on page 28.) 6. Food Premises. One register is kept for all food premises, stalls and hawkers of food. It incorporates registers required by various statutes. Ice cream premises. Prepared food premises. Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Sec. 14. [Re-enacted in Sec. 16, Food and Drugs Act, 1955.] Milk Distributors. Food and Drugs Act (Milk Dairies and Artificial Cream) Act, 1950, Sec. 13. [Food and Drugs Act, 1955, Sec. 35.] (Milk (Special Designation), (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949, and Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949.) Basement Bakehouses. Factories Act, 1937, Sec. 54. Hawkers of Food and Storage Premises. Middlesex County Council Act, 1950, Sec. 11. 7. Infectious Diseases. (Including food poisoning) Public Health Act, 1936, Sec. 144(1), Public Health (Infectious Disease) Regulations, 1953, and various other Regulations concerning poliomyelitis, meningococcal infection and other diseases. Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Sec. 17. [Food and Drugs Act, 1955, Sec. 26.] 8. Tuberculosis. Public Health Act, 1936, Sec. 143. (Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952). Every medical practitioner is required to inform the medical officer of health at once of all notifiable infectious diseases coming to his notice. The head of the family to which the patient belongs is also required to notify the medical officer of health but it is rare that informa tion is received from such source as he invariably leaves this duty to the patient's doctor. 56