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LIST OF CONTENTS.
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Introduction 1-3
Health Committee Members and Health Sub-Committee Members 5
List of Staff 6
SECTION A: STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS:
Statistics, etc 7-8
Population 9
Births 9
Illegitimacy 9
Deaths 9-10
Maternal Mortality 10-11
Infantile Mortality 11-13
Summary of Statistics 14
SECTION B: GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES:
Nursing Homes 15
Laboratory Facilities 15
Mass Radiography 16
National Assistance Act 1948 17
SECTION C: SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:
Water Supply 18
Public Swimming Baths 18
Public Health Inspectors' Visits 19-20
Notices Served 20
Nuisances abated and defects remedied 21-22
Factories Act, 1937, Part I 23
Outworkers 24
SECTION D: HOUSING:
Overcrowding 25
Rehousing 25
Rent Act, 1957 26
SECTION E: INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD:
Milk - Licensing and Sampling 27
Ice-cream 27-28
Meat and other Foods 28
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 28
Unsound Food 28
Sampling of Food and Drugs 31-32
Legal Proceedings 32-34
SECTION F: RODENT CONTROL, PETROLEUM STORAGE, ETC.
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 35
Petroleum (Regulation) Act 1928 & 1936 36
Pet Animals Act, 1951 36
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act, 1952 36
Clean Air Act 1956 36-38
Shops Act, 1950 38
Diseases of Animals Acts 38
SECTION G: PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES:
Notifiable Infectious Diseases, etc. 39-42, 45-46
Vaccination and Immunisation 42-43
Tuberculosis 47-48
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