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Section D. Housing.
Housing Inspections and Abatements 46
Rehousing 46
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Food Premises 50
Food Premises (Food & Drugs Act, 1938, Section 14) 50
Milk Licences 51
Inspections 51
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Food Sampling 51
Bacteriological Examinations—Milk 54
Ice Cream 54
Special Enquiries 54
Unsound Food 55
Meat Inspection 56
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over. Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Infectious Diseases—General 58
Smallpox 59
Vaccination 59
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 60
Scarlet Fever 60
Diphtheria 60
Diphtheria Immunisation 61
Typhoid Fever 61
Puerperal Pyrexia 64
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 64
Pemphigus Neonatorum 64
Measles 64
Whooping Cough 64
Tuberculosis 64
Mass Radiography 66
Food Poisoning 66
Other Infectious Diseases 66
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics 69
„ II.—Causes of Death 70
„ III.—Infant Mortality 71
„ IV.—Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths 72
„ V.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Sex and Age
Distribution 73
„ VI.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates 74
„ VII.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 75
„ VIII.—Housing Statistics 76
„ IX.—Summary of the work of the Sanitary Inspectors 77
„ X.—Nuisances. Defects and Contraventions Abated 80