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INDEX.
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Aged persons, care of 9
Ambulance facilities 20
Analyst, Public 15
Area of borough l6
Bacteriological examinations 41, 60
Bakehouses, Visits to 55
Basement rooms 47
Births—
illegitimate 21, 27
numbers and rates since 1918 26
rates 4, 21, 24, 26
registered live, and rate 4, 21
registered still, and rate 21, 27
still—numbers and rates since 1929 27
Blind persons, care of 51
Bodies received at mortuary 53
Burials 52
Cancer, Deaths from 29
Chief officers of the Council 13
Cleansing and disinfecting 42
Clerical staff 15
Climatological summary 17
Closing and demolition orders 47
Committee, members of 13
Complaints 45, 46
Condemned food 62
Coroner's Court 53
Day nurseries 19
Deaths—
bronchitis 30
cancer 29, 30
classification, with age distribution 22
heart disease 30
illegitimate children 23, 27
infantile deaths and rates 23, 26
infantile, with causes, age and ward distribution 24
infantile, with causes, since 1939 25
maternal 28
measles 37
neo-natal 26, 27
number and rate, all ages 21, 26
pneumonia 30
tuberculosis 30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 40
Diphtheria and Diphtheria immunisation graph 34
Disinfection 44
Drainage work 46
Factories Act, 1937 56
Factories and bakehouses 55
Factory Inspectors 15
Factory Inspectors, work of 55
Flats erected 948
Food—
condemned 62
inspectors 15
inspectors, work of 58
sampling 60
summonses 61
unsound 58, 62
Foreword by M.O.H 4
General information 16
Hospitals in the Borough 19
Houses and flats erected 48
Housing 10, 48
Ice cream 59, 60
Infantile mortality 9, 23
causes, age and ward distribution 24
causes, since 1939 25
numbers and rates since 1918 28
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Infantile mortality—continued.
rates 23
Infectious diseases 33
Infectious diseases—notifications 35,36
Inspectors—housing, food, factory and district 15
Legal proceedings 46, 61
Licensed premises 10, 50
Marriages 18
Maternity and Child Welfare centres 18
Measles 37
Meat and other foods—inspections 59
Milk : inspections, samples, etc. 59
Mortality, infantile—see Infantile mortality.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 53
National Assistance Act, 1948 51
Notices served 45, 55, 58
Notifiable diseases 33
Notifications—infectious diseases 35
Nurseries, Day 19
Outworkers 10, 57
Persons per acre (estimated average) 16
Pharmacy and Poisons 47
Poliomyelitis and polio-encephalitis 4
Population 4, 16, 21
Population, since 1918 26
Post-mortem examinations 53
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 53
Public Analyst 15
Public Health Annexe—attendance at 42
Public Health Committee members 13
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930 38
Public houses 10, 50
Rat extermination 53
Rateable value and general rate 16
Registrars of births, deaths and marriages 14
Rodent control 53
Sanitary administration 45
Sanitary inspectors 15
Sanitary inspectors, work of 45
Scabies 42, 43
Scarlet fever 5
School treatment centres 20
Smallpox and vaccination 5
Staff 15
Statistics, Vital 18, 21, 26, 27
Stillbirths 21, 27
Summonses—see Legal proceedings.
Tuberculosis—
Death rates 32, 40
deaths 30, 31, 39, 40
chest clinic 19
Medical Officer of Health's report 6
new cases 38
notification register 41
notifications 38
prevalence and fatality for past eleven years 40
Underground rooms 47
Unsound food 62
Verminous persons 42, 43
Vital statistics 18, 21, 26, 27
Water 47
Welfare centres 18
Whooping cough 33