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Section D. Housing.
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 44
Housing Inspections and Abatements 44
Rehousing 45
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Food Sampling 48
Special Enquiries 51
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Section 14 52
Food Premises 52
Unsound Food 53
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949 53
Bacteriological Examinations 54
Meat Inspection 54
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 55
Game Act, 1831 55
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over, Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Smallpox 58
Vaccination 58
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 59
Diphtheria 59
Diphtheria Immunisation 59
Typhoid Fever 60
Scarlet Fever 60
Puerperal Pyrexia 61
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 61
Pemphigus Neonatorum 61
Measles 61
Whooping Cough 61
Food Poisoning 61
Dysentery 62
Pneumonia 62
Tuberculosis 63
Chest Clinic 64
T.B. Care Committee 64
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics 67
„ II.—Causes of Death 68
„ III.—Infant Mortality 69
„ IV.—Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths 70
„ V.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases — Sex and Age
Distribution 71
„ VI.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates 72
„ VII.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 73
,, VIII.—Summary of the work of the Sanitary Inspectors 74
„ IX.—Nuisances, Defects and Contraventions Abated 77