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CONTENTS.
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Public Health Committee 4
Staff of Public Health Department 5
Introduction 7
Section I.—Natural and Social Conditions
of the Borough.
Population 9
Physical features and general character 9
Open Spaces 10
Occupations of Residents 11
Vital Statistics 12
Marriages 12
Births 12
Deaths 13
Infantile Mortality 16
Section II.—Sanitary circumstances
of the District.
Closet accommodation 17
Scavenging 17
Inspections 17
Notices served and result of service 18
Nuisances—Legal Proceedings 19
Premises and Occupations which can
be controlled by by-laws and regulations
20
Offensive Trades 20
Registered Tenement Houses 20
Smoke Prevention 20
Constructional Drain Work 20
Drain Tests 21
Water Service 21
Canal Boats Acts 22
Inhabited House Duty 22
The Rag Flock Act, 1911 22
Public Mortuaries and Coroner's
Court 22
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Factory and Workshop Acts 22
Inspections 22
Defects found 23
Home Work 23
Registered Workshops 24
Schools 25
Medical Inspection of Children 26, 27
Infectious Diseases in Schools 27
School Clinics 27
Section III.—Food.
(a) Milk Supply 29
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 29
Milk and Cream Regulations 30
Milk (Mothers and Children)
Order, 1918 30
(b) Other Foods 30
Slaughter-houses 30
Fried Fish and Fish Curing
Premises 31
Ice Cream Premises 31
Bakehouses and Restaurant Kitchens
31
(c) Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 32
Prosecutions 33
Administration of Food Controller's
Orders 33
Section IY.—Prevalence of and control
oyer Infectious Diseases.
Table of Notifiable Diseases 34
Do. Weekly Number of Notifications
35
Do. Weekly Number of Deaths 35
Do. Notifications past 10 years 35
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