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CONTENTS OF REPORT
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Members of the Health Committee 5
Staff of Health Department 9
Introductory remarks of Medical Officer of Health 10
SECTION A: Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area
General 15
Births; Birth Rate; Still Births 15
Deaths; Death Rate 16
Maternal Mortality 16
Infantile Mortality 17
Vital Statistics for Years 1958 -1967 19
Classification of Causes of Death 20
Notes on Vital Statistics 23
Deaths from Cancer of the Lung and Bronchus 24
Road Traffic Accidents. 25
SECTION B: Prevalence of, and Control over. Infectious and other
Diseases
Notifiable diseases 27
Notifications other than Tuberculosis 28
Age Distribution of Infectious Diseases 29
Notes on Infectious Diseases 31
Salmonella Infections 32
Notification of Tuberculosis 33
Report of Chest Physician 33
SECTION C; Personal Health Services
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres 38
Cervical cytology Screening Service 38
Family Planning 39
Occasional creches 39
Health Visiting 40
Home Nursing 41
Loan of Nursing'Equipment 41
Incontinence Pads 42
Domiciliary Midwifery Service 42
Midwives Act 1951 43
Day Nurseries 43
Child Minding 46
'Handicap' Registers 46
Prevention of Break-up of Families 47
Health Services — Family Case Workers 48
Vaccination and immunisation 49
International Certificates of Vaccination 49