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LIST OF CONTENTS.
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Introduction 1-2
Health Committee Members and Health Sub-Committee Members 4
List of Staff 5
SECTION A: STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS:
Statistics, etc 6-7
Population 8
Births 8
Illegitimacy 8
Deaths 8-10
Maternal Mortality 9-10
Infantile Mortality 10-12
Summary of Statistics 13
SECTION B: GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES:
Laboratory Facilities 14
Nursing Homes 14
Mass Radiography 15
National Assistance Act 1948 16
SECTION C: SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:
Water Supply 17
Public Health Inspectors' Visits 18-19
Notices Served 19
Nuisances abated and defects remedied 20-21
Factories Act, 1937, Part I 22
Outworkers 23
SECTION D: HOUSING:
Overcrowding 24
Rehousing 24
Rent Act, 1957 25
SECTION E: INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD:
Milk - Licensing and Sampling 26
Ice-cream 26-27
Meat and other Foods 27
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 27-28
Unsound Food 28
Sampling of Food and Drugs 29-32
Legal Proceedings 32
SECTION F: RODENT CONTROL, PETROLEUM STORAGE, ETC.
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 33
Petroleum (Regulation) Act 1928 & 1936 33
Pet Animals Act, 1951 33-34
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act, 1952 34
Clean Air Act 1956 34-35
Shops Act, 1950 36
Diseases of Animals Acts 36
SECTION G. PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES:
Notifiable Infectious Diseases, etc. 37-40, 43-44
Vaccination and Immunisation 41-42
Tuberculosis 45-46
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