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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:-
(a) Live Births 3
(b) Stillbirths 3
(c) Deaths - Total 3
(i) Death Rate - Total 3
(ii) Maternal Death Rate 3
(iii) Infant Death Rate - Quinquennial
Infant Mortality Rate - Causes of
death of children under one year
of age 3,4 & 5
(iv) Other Deaths 5
Table I - Extracts from Vital Statistics for
years 1946 - 1950 inclusive 6
Table II - Comparison of Vital Statistics
1921 - 1950 7
Table III - Birth Rates, Civilian Death Rates,
and Case Rates for certain Infectious
Diseases, in the year 1950 8
Table IV - Causes of Death 9
SECTION B.
General Provisions of Health Services.
(1) (i) Public Health Officers 10
(ii) Laboratory Facilities 10
(iii) Ambulance Facilities 10
(iv) Hospitals
(a) Infectious Diseases 10
(b) Smallpox 11
(c) General 11
(2) National Assistance Act, 1948 11
SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances.
Introduction 12
(1) Water Supply 13
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 13
(3) Rivers and Streams 13
(4) Closet Accommodation 14
(5) Public Cleansing 14
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area 14