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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 13

Diverse Business A fair indication of the wide scope of the Health Department’s activities is given in a notice displayed outside the doqr leading to the public health section in the Christchurch office This section is but one of 12 on the second of the three floors occupied by the department, but it has an impressive array of duties. They are labelling and drugs regulations, labelling under the medical advertisement regulations, labelling under the poisons regulations, medical registration. poisons licensing, drainlaying registration, infectious diseases recording, tuberculosis housing assistance, diphtheria and whooping cough immunisation, B.C.G. vaccination, occupational health inquiries, and school dental inquiries.