[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

Tower Hamlets 1968

Published: 1969
Pages: 178
Tables: 85

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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1968
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Area of Residence Syphi1 is Gonorrhoea Other Conditions Total (1967)
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TABLE A Alleged Sources of Infection - EARLY SYPHILIS

Year Total A11ended Infected
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TABLE B Alleged Sources of Infection - GONORRHOEA

Year Total At tended Infected
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24 samples of ice cream submitted to the methylene blue reduction test gave the following results:

Manufactured
Grade In Borough Outside Borough Total
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The following acts, orders and regulations affecting the department were made during the year:

Acts of Parliament Date made Date Operative
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Orders and Regulations (Continued) Date made Date Operative
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Tower Hamlets children placed in special schools are as follows:-

Handicap No. at Day Schools No. at Boarding Schools
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TABLE 1 TOTAL DEATHS BY CAUSE AND AGE OF TOWER HAMLETS RESIDENTS-1968 (Registrar-General's Return)

CAUSE OF DEATH ALL AGES AGE GROUP
TOTAL M F -1 1- 5- 15- 25- 35- 45- 55- 65- 75-
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TABLE 2 SUMMARY OF ROAD ACCIDENTS OCCURRING IN THE BOROUGH

Pedestrians Motor Cyclists Pedal Cyclists Other Road Users Total
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TABLE 3 INFANT MORTALITY Deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 year (compiled from local death returns)

AGE PERIODS Total* Deaths under 1 year Per cent of Total
Under 24 hours 1-6 days Weeks Months
1- 2- 3- 1- 4- 7- 10-
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TABLE 4 INFANT MORTALITY Comparative table showing deaths of infants at various ages under 1 year

Year Under 24 hours 1-6 days 1-4 weeks Total under 4 weeks 1-12 months Total under 1 year Percentage deaths under 4 weeks of total Infant deaths

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COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS

Year	Population	Live Births		Deaths		Deaths under 1 year		Maternal Deaths		Cancer Deaths (all forms)		Tuberculosis Deaths (all forms)
		No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*	No.	* Rate*	No.	* Rate*	No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*

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TABLE 6 OBSERVATION REGISTER
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TABLE 7 DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN THE BOROUGH

Disease Authority for Notification Statutory Instrument No.
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TABLE 8 INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

Corrected Notifications Removed to Hospital Notified in 1967 Notified in 1966
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TABLE 9 MORBIDITY-First Claims for Sickness Benefit The number of Claims made to local offices of the Ministry of Social Security covering postal districts E.1, E.2, E.3, and E.14, were as follows:-

1968 1967 1966 1968 1967 1966
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TABLE 10 VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION

VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
Children vaccinated/immunised Others aged Total
Year of birth
1968 1967 1966 1965 1961-64 Under 16 Over 16
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Vaccinations/immunisations(all-ages) carried out at clinics/general practitioners' surgeries

At Council Clinics By General Practitioners % Primary by General Practitioners
Primary Reinforcing Primary Reinforcing
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TABLE 11 TUBERCULOSIS-NEW CASES AND DEATHS New Cases and Deaths: Primary notifications of 102 pulmonary and 19 non-pulmonary cases were received. 11 other cases came to light via death returns from Registrars. Pulmonary tuberculosis accounted for 12 deaths, there being 5 deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis, including late effects. Age distribution of new cases and deaths is as follows:-

-1 1- 2- 5- 10- 15- 20- 25- 35- 45- 55- 65- 75- Total (all ages)
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TABLE 12 TUBERCULOSIS-VARIATIONS IN REGISTER

Pulmonary Non-pulmonary Total Cases
Males Females Males Females
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TABLE 13 TUBERCULOSIS-CARE AND AFTER CARE
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TABLE 14 MASS RADIOGRAPHY

Unit 6A Unit 6B Total
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TABLE 15 TUBERCULIN TEST AND B.C.G. VACCINATION

Contacts Schoolchildren and Students Total
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TABLE 16 ANTE AND POST NATAL SERVICES
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TABLE 17 CHILD WELFARE CENTRES
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TABLE 18 DAY NURSERIES AND CHILD-MINDERS

DAY NURSERIES Voluntary Nurseries Council Nurseries
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TABLE 19 CERVICAL CYTOLOGY

Premises Number Sessions Examinations
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TABLE 20 CHIROPODY

Treated at Clinics Domiciliary Treatment
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TABLE 21 DENTAL TREATMENT FOR EXPECTANT AND NURSING MOTHERS

Expectant Mothers Children
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TABLE 22 HEALTH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Discussion groups or talks on the following subjects were arranged during the year:

Subject No. Occasions Persons participating
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TABLE 23 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE Patients and attendances at the once-weekly sessions held at clinics in the borough were as follows:-

Premises New Cases Transfers Old Patients Total Patients Total Visits No. of Sessions
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TABLE 24 HEALTH VISITING

No. Visited No. of Visits
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TABLE 25 PREMATURE BIRTHS

Born in Hospital Born at Home or in Nursing Home
1968 1967 1966 1968 1967 1966
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TABLE 26 HOME BATHING
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TABLE 27 HOME HELP SERVICE

Persons for whom service provided during year:
No. of persons Hours of Service as % of total
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TABLE 28 HOME NURSING
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TABLE 29 LAUNDERING FOR AGED AND INCONTINENT
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TABLE 30 RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS

Category No. for whom holiday arranged
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TABLE 31 LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT AND FIREGUARDS Nursing equipment and fireguards loaned, by the Council, free of charge to residents of the borough during the year was as follows:-

No. on loan at 1/1/68 No. loaned during year No. returned during year No. on loan at 31/12/68
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TABLE 32 DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY

Attendances by Midwives Doctor present Doctor not present
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TABLE 33 MENTAL HEALTH (i) Patients referred to Council during the year

Referred by Mentally 111 Psychopathic Subnormal Total
Under Over Under Over Under Over
16 16 16 16 16 16
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MENTAL HEALTH (iv) Patients under Care at 31st December.

Mentally 111 Elderly Mentally Infirm Psychop athic Sub-normal and Severely Sub-normal Total
Under 16 Over 16 Under 16 Over 16 Under 16 Over 16

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MENTAL HEALTH (v) Day and Training Centres

Trainees	Adult Training Centre Underwood Road		Industrial T raining Centre White Horse Road	Junior Training Centre Cornwall Ave.		Special Care Unit University House		Day Centre Pritchard's Road		Geriatric Unit Pritchard's Road		T 0 T A L

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TABLE 36 PARKS AND OPEN SPACES IN THE BOROUGH

(a) Administered by Borough Council Location
Location Area in Acres
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TABLE 36 (continued) PARKS AND OPEN SPACES IN THE BOROUGH (continued)

(b) Administered by Greater London Council
(b)Location Area in Acres
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TABLE 37 BURIALS UNDERTAKEN Under Section 50, National Assistance Act, 1948.
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TABLE 38 MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS OF COUNCIL STAFF

(a) Reason for Examination Number examined
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TABLE 39 DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS
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TABLE 40 VISITS BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR (CLEAN AIR) AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
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TABLE 41 SUMMARY OF PUBLIC ANALYST' S QUARTERLY REPORTS

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TABLE 42 FOOD HYGIENE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1960.

Type of premises (excluding stalls)	Regulation 16		Regulation 19
Type of premises (excluding stalls)	Total No. of Premises	No. of premises fitted to comply with Regulation	Total No. of Premises	No. of premises fitted to comply with Regulation

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TABLE 43 HOUSING INSPECTORS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS -VISITS AND NOTICES

VISITS
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TABLE 44 DWELLINGS ERECTED DURING 1968

(a) By Borough Council No. of Dwellings
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TABLE 45 PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORIES ACT, 1961

Inspection fof purpose of prevision to
Type of Factory No. on Register Inspections Written Notices

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TABLE 45 (continued) PART VIII OF THE ACT - OUTWORK

section 133
Nature of Work	No. of outworkers in August list	No. Cases of default in sending lists to the Council	No. of prosecutions for failure to supply lists to the Council

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TABLE 46 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED DURING THE YEAR

No. of Summonses Fines Costs
£. s. d. £. s. d.
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TABLE 47 MORTUARY SERVICE

Tower Hamlets Mortuary Hackney Mortuary Total
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TABLE 48 CLEANSING STATION
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TABLE 49

DISINFECTING STATION
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TABLE 50 OFFICES, SHOPS AND RAILWAY PREMISES ACT, 1963

Type of premises Registered during year Registrations Registered premises receiving general inspections during year Persons employed
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TABLE 51 RODENT CONTROL

Properties inspected Number Inspected Number found to be infested by
Rats Mice
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TABLE 52 VISITS BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS

Type of Premises No. Visits or Inspections
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TABLE 53 MISCELLANEOUS WORK OF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS

Rent Act 1957 - Certificates of Disrepair
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TABLE 54 NOTICES SERVED BY DISTRICT PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS
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TABLE 55 OUTWORKERS
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TABLE 56 REFUSE DISPOSAL
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TABLE 57 CONFERENCES The Council was represented at the following Conferences during the year:

Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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TABLE 57 (continued) CONFERENCES (continued)

Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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TABLE 57 (continued) CONFERENCES (continued)

Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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TABLE 58 REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES Courses attended by staff during the year were as follows:

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)

Course Venue Date Attended by
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TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 59 SCHOOL HEALTH STATISTICS

Pupils on School Rolls at December, 1968
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TABLE 59 (continued)
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TABLE 59 (continued)
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TABLE 59 (continued) Routine Vision Tests - Visual acuity standards expressed as percentage of children tested
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TABLE 59 (continued)
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TABLE 60 STAFF CHANGES Staff changes which took place during the year are summarised as follows:-

Appointments Resignations
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TABLE 61 HEALTH DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHMENTS Particulars of Clinics held and Services provided as at 31st December, 1968. (a) CLINICS AND SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRES

Address Clinics and other activities held
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TABLE 61 (continued)

Address Clinics and other activities held
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TABLE 61 (continued)

	AGE PERIODS									Total* Deaths under 1 year	Per cent of Total
	Under 24 hours	1-6 days	Weeks			Months
	Under 24 hours	1-6 days	1-	2-	3-	1-	4-	7-	10-


Children vaccinated/immunised					Others aged		Total
Year of birth					Others aged
1968	1967	1966	1965	1961-64	Under 16	Over 16

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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1968

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TABLE A Alleged Sources of Infection - EARLY SYPHILIS

TABLE B Alleged Sources of Infection - GONORRHOEA

24 samples of ice cream submitted to the methylene blue reduction test gave the following results:

The following acts, orders and regulations affecting the department were made during the year:

Continued from previous page

Tower Hamlets children placed in special schools are as follows:-

TABLE 1 TOTAL DEATHS BY CAUSE AND AGE OF TOWER HAMLETS RESIDENTS-1968 (Registrar-General's Return)

TABLE 2 SUMMARY OF ROAD ACCIDENTS OCCURRING IN THE BOROUGH

TABLE 3 INFANT MORTALITY Deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 year (compiled from local death returns)

TABLE 4 INFANT MORTALITY Comparative table showing deaths of infants at various ages under 1 year

COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS

TABLE 6 OBSERVATION REGISTER

TABLE 7 DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN THE BOROUGH

TABLE 8 INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

TABLE 9 MORBIDITY-First Claims for Sickness Benefit The number of Claims made to local offices of the Ministry of Social Security covering postal districts E.1, E.2, E.3, and E.14, were as follows:-

TABLE 10 VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION

Vaccinations/immunisations(all-ages) carried out at clinics/general practitioners' surgeries

TABLE 12 TUBERCULOSIS-VARIATIONS IN REGISTER

TABLE 13 TUBERCULOSIS-CARE AND AFTER CARE

TABLE 14 MASS RADIOGRAPHY

TABLE 15 TUBERCULIN TEST AND B.C.G. VACCINATION

TABLE 16 ANTE AND POST NATAL SERVICES

TABLE 17 CHILD WELFARE CENTRES

TABLE 18 DAY NURSERIES AND CHILD-MINDERS

TABLE 19 CERVICAL CYTOLOGY

TABLE 20 CHIROPODY

TABLE 21 DENTAL TREATMENT FOR EXPECTANT AND NURSING MOTHERS

TABLE 22 HEALTH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Discussion groups or talks on the following subjects were arranged during the year:

TABLE 23 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE Patients and attendances at the once-weekly sessions held at clinics in the borough were as follows:-

TABLE 24 HEALTH VISITING

TABLE 25 PREMATURE BIRTHS

TABLE 26 HOME BATHING

TABLE 27 HOME HELP SERVICE

TABLE 28 HOME NURSING

TABLE 29 LAUNDERING FOR AGED AND INCONTINENT

TABLE 30 RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS

TABLE 31 LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT AND FIREGUARDS Nursing equipment and fireguards loaned, by the Council, free of charge to residents of the borough during the year was as follows:-

TABLE 32 DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY

TABLE 33 MENTAL HEALTH (i) Patients referred to Council during the year

MENTAL HEALTH (iv) Patients under Care at 31st December.

MENTAL HEALTH (v) Day and Training Centres

TABLE 36 PARKS AND OPEN SPACES IN THE BOROUGH

TABLE 36 (continued) PARKS AND OPEN SPACES IN THE BOROUGH (continued)

TABLE 37 BURIALS UNDERTAKEN Under Section 50, National Assistance Act, 1948.

TABLE 38 MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS OF COUNCIL STAFF

TABLE 39 DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS

TABLE 40 VISITS BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR (CLEAN AIR) AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

TABLE 41 SUMMARY OF PUBLIC ANALYST' S QUARTERLY REPORTS

TABLE 42 FOOD HYGIENE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1960.

TABLE 43 HOUSING INSPECTORS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS -VISITS AND NOTICES

TABLE 44 DWELLINGS ERECTED DURING 1968

TABLE 45 PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORIES ACT, 1961

TABLE 45 (continued) PART VIII OF THE ACT - OUTWORK

TABLE 46 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED DURING THE YEAR

TABLE 47 MORTUARY SERVICE

TABLE 48 CLEANSING STATION

TABLE 49

TABLE 50 OFFICES, SHOPS AND RAILWAY PREMISES ACT, 1963

TABLE 51 RODENT CONTROL

TABLE 52 VISITS BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS

TABLE 53 MISCELLANEOUS WORK OF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS

TABLE 54 NOTICES SERVED BY DISTRICT PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS

TABLE 55 OUTWORKERS

TABLE 56 REFUSE DISPOSAL

TABLE 57 CONFERENCES The Council was represented at the following Conferences during the year:

TABLE 57 (continued) CONFERENCES (continued)

TABLE 57 (continued) CONFERENCES (continued)

TABLE 58 REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES Courses attended by staff during the year were as follows:

TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)

TABLE 58 (continued) REFRESHER AND TRAINING COURSES (continued)