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Section D. Housing.
Housing Inspections and Abatements 42
Rehousing 42
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Food Sampling 46
Bacteriological Examinations 48
Ice Cream 49
Special Enquiries 49
Unsound Food 50
Food Preparing Places 51
Inspection of Food Premises 51
Milk Licences 52
Meat Inspection 52
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over, Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Smallpox 56
Vaccination 56
Anterior Poliomyelitis 56
Scarlet Fever 56
Diphtheria 57
Diphtheria Immunisation 57
Typhoid Fever 57
Puerperal Pyrexia 57
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 57
Pemphigus Neonatorum 57
Measles 58
Whooping Cough 58
Tuberculosis 58
Food Poisoning 59
Other Infectious Diseases 59
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.— Summary of Statistics 63
„ II.— Causes of Death 64
„ III.— Infant Mortality 65
„ IV.— Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths 66
„ V.— Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Sex and age Distribution
67
„ VI.— Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates 68
„ VII.— Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 69
„ VIII.—1Tuberculosis—Neiw Cases and Mortality 70
„ IX.— Housing Statistics 71
„ X.— Summary of the work of the Sanitary Inspectors 72
„ XI.— Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948 75
„ XII.— Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions Abated 76