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ANNUAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CQNTENTS
Preface
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Staff of the 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) Still Births 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 3, 4 & 5
(iv) Other deaths 5
Table I - Extracts from Vital Statistics for years
1947 - 1951 inclusive 6
Table II - Comparison of vital Statistics 1922-1951 7
Table III - Birth Rates, Civilian Death Rates, and
Case Rates for certain Infectious
Diseases in the year 1951 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
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951 11
SECTION C
Sanitary Clrcumstances
Introduction 12 - 15
(l) Water Supply 16
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 16
(3) Rivers and Streams 16
(4) Closet Accommodation 16
(5) Public Cleansing 17
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area 17
(7) Shops and Offices 18
(8) Factories Act, 1937 18, 19
(9) Camping Sites 19