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CONTENTS
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Introduction 1
Staff of the Health Department 3
Social Conditions 5
PART I
STATISTICS AND TABLES
Area and Population 6
Vital Statistics 6-8
Deaths: 9
Causes in age groups 11
Cancer 12-13
Infant Mortality 13-15
Maternal Mortality 15
Marriages 16
PART II
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notification of infectious diseases 17
Vaccination and immunisation 18
Incidence of infectious disease:—
Dysentery 19
Food Poisoning 19
Poliomyelitis 19
Smallpox 19
Weil's Disease 20
Tuberculosis 20-23
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation 23
PART III
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE
Staff—Inspectoral 24
Sanitary Circumstances
Housing 24-26
Rent Act, 1957, and Housing Repairs
and Rents Act, 1954 26
Sanitary Inspections 26-27
Summonses 27
Sewerage 27-28
Water Supply 28
Public Cleansing 29
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Drainage 29
Dustbins 29
Factories, Workshops & Outworkers 29-30
Rodent Control 30-31
Licences and Registrations
Hairdressers 31
Pharmacy and Poisons 31
Rag Flock 32
Pet Animals 32
Rag and Bone Dealers 32
Caravans 32
Atmospheric Pollution
Smoke Control Areas 32
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution 33
Inter-Borough Smoke Liaison
Committee 33
Area Maps 34-38
Exhibition 39
Inspection and Supervision of Food
General 40
Food:
Premises 41
Unsound 41-42
Sampling 42
Bacteriological Examinations of Food 43
Ice-Cream and Preserved Food 43-44
Milk Supplies 44
Designated Milk Licences 45
Condensed Milk Regs. 1959 45
Markets 45
Medicinal Baths
Treatment Centre 46
Section 43 of L.C.C. (G.P.) Act, 1953 46
Sterilisation 47
Disinfestation 47
Disinfection 48
Health Laundry 48