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CONTENTS OF REPORT
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Members of the Health Committee 5
Staff of Health Department 7
Introductory remarks of Medical Officer of Health 8
SECTION A: Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area
General 13
Births; Birth Rate; Still Births 13-14
Deaths; Death Rate 14
Maternal Mortality 14
Infantile Mortality 15
Vital Statistics for Years 1959-1968 17
Classification of Causes of Death 18
Notes on Vital Statistics 23
Deaths from Cancer of the Lung and Bronchus 25
Road Traffic Accidents 25
SECTION B: Prevalence of, and Control over, Infectious and other
Di seases
Notifiable Diseases 29
Notifications other than Tuberculosis 30
Age Distribution of Infectious Diseases 31
Notes on Infectious Diseases 33
Salmonella Infections 36
Notification of Tuberculosis 38
Report of Chest Physician 38
SECTION C: Personal Health Services
Maternity and Child Health Centres 45
Cervical Cytology Screening Service 46
Family Planning 46
Occasional Creches 47
Day Nurseries 47
Child Minding 48
'Handicap' Registers 50
Standing Committee for Co-ordination 50
Health Services - Family Case Workers 51
Domiciliary Midwifery Service 51
Midwives Act, 1951 52
Loan of Nursing Equipment 52
Incontinence Pads 53
Vaccination and Immunisation 53
International Certificates of Vaccination 54
Tuberculosis 54
Health Visiting 54