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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Introductory Remarks 1
PART I.
A. Statistics.
Population 7
Births 10
Notification of Births Act 12
Report of Health Visitors 14
Influence of Industrial Work 17
Deaths 22
Infantile Mortality 23
Deaths in Block Dwellings 26
Tables 27-38
B. Communicable Diseases.
Smallpox 39
Vaccination 40
Scarlet Fever 40
Diphtheria 43
Typhoid Fever 45
Puerperal Fever 46
Cholera, Plague 46
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia 46
Statistical Tables 47-50
Tuberculosis 50
Compulsory Notification of Poor
Law Cases 51
Illustrations— Maitland Sanitorium
between 52-3
Measles 61
Whooping Cough 62
Diarrhœal Diseases 63
Influenza 63
Schools and Infectious Disease 64
Bacteriological Laboratory 67
Disinfection 68
New Disinfecting Station 69
Cleansing of Persons 69
Verminous Houses 69
Mortuaries 69
Deposit of Dead Bodies on Undertaker's
Premises 70
PART II.
C. Souse Inspection, & c.
Defects Remedied 71
Legal Proceedings 73
Housing and Town Planning Act 74
Drainage, &c., Plans 76
Hot Water Discharged into Sewers 76
Daily Removal of House Refuse 77
Removal of Offensive Refuse 77
Water Supply 78
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Houses Let in Lodgings 78
St. John's Improvement 78
Accommodation for the Storage of
Food. 79
Regulation of Cheap Furnished
Rooms 80
Common Lodging-houses 81
Revenue Act 82
Smoke Prevention 83
D. Workshops.
Number on Register 85
Defects.. 86
Unventilated Stoves 87
Ventilation 87
Underground Workrooms 88
Outworkers 89
Infectious Disease 91
Laundries 91
E. Food Supply.
Restaurants, &c. 92
Ice Cream Premises 92
Bakehouses 92
Certification of Food for Export 93
Infectious Disease 93
Milkshops 93
Dirty Milk 93
Tuberculous Milk 93
Infectious Disease 94
Scarlet Fever and Milk 94
Cow-sheds 96
Food and Market Inspection 96
Food Condemned 97
Use of Formaldehyde for Preserving
Meat 98
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts—
Samples Taken, Result of Analysis
and Proceedings 99
Milk 101
Cream. 103
Report re Boric Acid 103
Butter and Margarine 104
Sausages and Meat Pies 105
Appeal 105
Tinned Foods 108
Mineral Waters 109
Lead in Ginger Beer 109
Chocolate 109
Spirits 110
Drugs 111
Obstructing Inspectors 111
Details of Prosecutions 112-118
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