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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Introductory letter 7
Sanitary Committee—List of Members 8
Staff of the Public Health Department 8-9
Summary of Annual Health Report 10
A.—Vital Statistics—
Population . u
Area .. 12
Births 12
Deaths 13
Ward Death Rates 13
Death Certification 14
Inquests 14
Assigned causes of Deaths 14
B.—Infant Work—
Infant Mortality .. 15
Diarrhoea and Epidemic Enteritis . 15
Method of Feeding 16
Notification of Births Act (1907) 17
Infant Mortality, West Ward 18
Establishment of Infant and Children's Centre 25
Staff of the Centre 25
Work of the Centre .. 25
Midwives' Act, 1902 . 25
C.—Infectious Diseases—
Smallpox—Cases—Hospital—Vaccination 26
Measles .. 26
Scarlet Fever .. 27
„ Outbreak in St. Joseph's Convent 27
„ Return Cases . 27
Influenza 28
Whooping Cough 28
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 29
Enteric Fever 30
Tuberculosis 32-103
Puerperal Fever 32
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 32
Erysipelas 33
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis and Acute Poliomyelitis 33
Anthrax 33