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ANNUAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
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Constitution of the Public Health Committee 1
Staff of the Public Health Department.1
SECTION A
Statistics and Social Conditions
(1) General Statistics 2
(2) Social Conditions 2, 3
(3) Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year:-
(a) Live Births3
(b) Still Births 3
(c) Deaths - Total4
(i) Death Rate - Total 4
(ii) Maternal Death Rate4
(iii) Infant Death Rate - Quinquennial
Infant Mortality Rate - Causes of
Death of Children under one year 4, 5
(iv) Deaths from Other Causes6
Introduction to Tables on Vital Statistics. 6
Table I - Extracts from Vital Statistics for
years 1950 - 1954 inclusive 7
Table II - Comparison of Vital Statistics
1925 - 1954 8
Table III - Birth Rates,, Death Rates in the
year 1954 9
Table IV - Causes of Death. 10
SECTION B
General Provisions of Health Services
(1) (i) Public Health Offlcers11
(ii) Laboratory Facilities 11
(iii) Ambulance facilities11
(iv) Hospitals:-
(a) Infectious Diseases11
(b ) Smallpox 12
(c) General 12
(2) National Assistance Act,1948 12
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 195112
SECTION C
Sanitary Circumstances
(l) Water Supply 13
(2) Drainage and Sewerage 13
(3)Rivers and Streams 13
(4) Closet Accommodation13
(5) Public Cleansing14
(6) Sanitary Inspection of the Area14,15
(7) Shops 15
(8) Factories Act, 193715,16
(9) Camping Sites 17