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Section D. Housing.
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Rehousing 40
Housing Inspections and Abatements 41
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Food Sampling 44
Bacteriological Examinations 46
Ice Cream 46
Special Enquiries 47
Unsound Food 47
Inspection of Food Premises 49
Milk Licences 49
Meat Inspection 49
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control over Infectious and
other Diseases.
Smallpox 52
Vaccination 52
Anterior Poliomyelitis 52
Scarlet Fever 53
Diphtheria 53
Diphtheria Immunisation 53
Typhoid Fever 54
Puerperal Pyrexia 54
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 54
Pemphigus Neonatorum 54
Measles 54
Whooping Cough 54
Tuberculosis 55
Mass X-Ray Survey 55
Food Poisoning 56
Other Infectious Diseases 56
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics 59
„ II.—Causes of Death 60
„ III.—Infant Mortality 61
,, IV.—Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths 62
„ V.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age
Distribution 63
„ VI.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates 64
,, VII.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonable incidence 65
,, VIII.—Tuberculosis—New Cases and Mortality 66
„ IX.—Housing Statistics 67
X.—Summary of the Work of the Sanitary Inspectors 68
„ XI.—Factories Acts. 1937 and 1948 71
„ XII.—Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions Abated 73