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Sbction D. Housing.
Housing Inspections and Abatements 40
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 40
Housing Statistics 40
Moveable Dwellings 42
Rehousing 41
Section E. Inspection and Supervision of Foods.
Bacteriological Examinations 47
Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Section 16 45
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 44
Food Premises 46
Game Act, 1831 49
General Remarks 44
Ice Cream 47
Meat Inspection 48
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 49
Milk and Dairies Regulations 47
Special Enquiries (Food and Drugs) 45
Unsound Food 46
Section F. Prevalence of, and Control Over, Infectious and
Other Diseases.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 52
Chest Clinic 57
Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation 53
Dysentery 53
Food Poisoning 53
General Remarks 52
Mass X-Ray 57
Measles 54
Meningococcal Infections 54
Other Infectious Diseases 58
Pneumonia 54
Scarlet Fever 55
Smallpox and Vaccination 55
Tuberculosis 55
Tuberculosis Care Committee 57
Typhoid Fever 58
Whooping Cough 58
APPENDIX—STATISTICAL TABLES.
Table I.—Summary of Statistics, 1956 61
„ II.—Vital Statistics of the Borough for past ten years 62
„ III.—Causes of Death 63
„ IV.—Infant Mortality 64
„ V.—Analysis of Causes of Infant Deaths, 1947-56 65
,, VI.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Ward Distribution,
Attack and Mortality Rates 66
„ VII.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases—Seasonal Incidence 67
„ VIII.—Meteorological Observations and Open Air Recreational
Amenities 68
„ IX.—Local Clinic Services 69
„ X.—Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948 70
XI.—Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 71
„ XII.—Food and Drugs Act, 1955—Food Sampling 72
„ XIII.—Summary of the work of the Public Health Inspectors,
1956 76
„ XIV.—Nuisances, Defects, Contraventions, etc., Abated or
Remedied, 1956 79