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CONTENTS
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Introduction 1
Staff of the Health Department 2
Physical and Social Conditions 3
PART I
STATISTICS AND TABLES
Area and Population 4
Vital Statistics 4-9
Census, 1961 8
Deaths : 9
Causes in age groups 10
Cancer 11-12
Infant Mortality 12-14
Maternal Mortality 14
Stillbirths 14-15
Marriages 15
PART II
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notification of infectious diseases 16
Immunisation and vaccination 17
Incidence of infectious disease: —
Dysentery 18
Food Poisoning 18
Poliomyelitis 18
Smallpox 18
Weil's Disease 19
Tuberculosis 19-21
Typhoid 22
Paratyphoid B. 22-23
International Certificates of Vaccination
and Inoculation 24
PART III
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE
Staff—Inspectoral 25
Sanitary Circumstances
Housing 25-28
Rent Act, 1957, and Housing Repairs
and Rents Act, 1954 28
Sanitary Inspections 28-29
Summonses 29
Sewerage 29-30
Water Supply 30
Public Cleansing 31
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Drainage 31
Factories, Workshops & Outworkers 31-32
Rodent Control 32-33
Licences and Registrations
Hairdressers 33
Pharmacy and Poisons 33
Rag Flock 33
Pet Animals 33
Caravans 33
Atmospheric Pollution
Smoke Control Areas 34
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution
34-35
Inter-Borough Smoke Control
Liaison Committee 35
Area Map (inside back cover)
Inspection and Supervision of Food
General 35-36
Food:
Premises 36-37
Unsound 37-38
Sampling 38
Complaints 39
Bacteriological Examinations of Food 39
Ice-Cream and Preserved Food 40-41
Milk Supplies 41
Designated Milk Licences 41-42
Condensed Milk Regs. 1959 42
Markets 42
Medicinal Baths
General 42
Section 43 of L.C.C. (G.P.) Act, 1953 42-43
Treatment Centre 43
Sterilisation 43
Disinfestation 43
Disinfection 43
Health Laundry 43-44