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CONTENTS.
Page.
Introductory Letter 1
List of Staff 4
SECTION A—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Social Conditions 6
Births 6
Deaths 6
Comparative Statistics Table 8
The Health of the Borough 9
SECTION B—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Laboratory Work 11
Ambulance Facilities 12
List of Treatment Centres & Clinics 14
Health Visitors 15
Premature Infants 17
Care of Illegitimate Children 18
Nursing Homes 20
Day Nurseries 20
Home and Domestic Help Service 22
SECTION C—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 24
Sanitary Inspection 27
Sanitary Defects 30
Notices Served 32
Complaints Received 34
Food Inspection 35
Petroleum Acts 38
Disinfection and Disinfestation 38
Destruction of Insect Pests and the Use of D.D.T. 38
Diseases of Animals Acts 39
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 39
SECTION D—HOUSING.
Housing 41
Council's Housing Programme 43
SECTION E—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 44
Milk (Special Designations) Order 1936 45
Ice Cream 45
SECTION F—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notification of Infectious Disease 46
Precautions against Typhus and Smallpox 47
Admissions to South Middlesex Fever Hospital 48
Diphtheria Immunisation 48
Verminous Conditions—Scabies and Head-lice 50
Tuberculosis 51
INDEX 53