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ANNUAL REPORT
1952
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Page
Staff of the Public Health Department 1
SECTION A
Statistics and Social Conditions
(l) General Statistics 2
(2) Social Conditions 2
(3) Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Years:-
(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 year3,4
(iv) Deaths from Other causes 5
Introduction to Tables on Vital Statistics 5
Table I - Extracts from Vital Statistics for
years 1948 - 1952 inclusive 6
Table II - Comparison of Vital Statistics
1923 - 1952 7
Table III - Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Case
Rates for certain infectious diseases
in the year 1952 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 11,12
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 195111,12
SECTION C
Sanitary Circumstances
(1) Water Supply 13
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 13
(3) Rivers and Streams 13
(4) Closet Accommodation 13
(5) Public Cleansing 14
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area 14,15
(7) Shops 15
(8) Factories Act, 1937 15,16
(9) Camping Sites 16