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ANNUAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface.
Page
Staff of Public Health Department 1
SECTION A.
Statistics and Social Conditions
(1) General Statistics 2
(2) Social Conditions 2
(3) Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year 2
(a) Live Births 2
(b) Stillbirths 2
(c) (i) Deaths - Total 3
(ii) Deaths of Infants under one year of
age - total and infant mortality
rate 3
Causes of deaths of children under
one year of age 4
(iii ) Other deaths 4
Table I - Extracts from Vital Statistics
for years 1945 - 1949 inclusive 5
Table II - Comparison of Vital Statistics
1920 - 1949 6
Table III - Birth-rates, Civilian Deathrates,
and Case-rates for certain
infectious diseases, in the year 1949 7
Table IV - Causes of Death 8
SECTION B.
General Provisions of Health Services.
(1) (i) Public Health Officers 9
(ii) Laboratory Facilities 9
(iii) Ambulance Facilities 9
(iv) Hospitals
(a) Infectious Diseases 9
(b) Smallpox 10
(c) General 10
(2) National Assistance Act, 1948 10
Table V - List of Geriatric Cases 11
SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances.
Introduction 12
(1) Water Supply 13
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 13
(3) Rivers & Streams 13
(4) Closet Accommodation 14
(5) Public Cleansing 14
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area 14