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CONTENTS.
Page.
List of Staff 2
Preface 3
SECTION A—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Social Conditions 8
Births 8
Deaths 8
Maternal Mortality 9
Infant Mortality 9
Premature Infants 10
Comparative Statistics 11
SECTION C—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 12
Sanitary Inspection 14
Sanitary Defects 17
Noticcs Served 20
Complaints Received 21
Food Inspection 22
Food Premises 23
Byelaws 23
Richmond Clean Food Traders' Guild 23
Petroleum Acts 24
Disinfection and Disinfestation 24
Rodent Control 24
Smoke Abatement 25
Rag, Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 25
SECTION D—HOUSING.
Housing 26
Council's Housing Programme 28
SECTION E—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Sale of Food and Drugs 30
The Food and Drugs (Milk & Dairies) Act, 1944 31
Ice Cream 32
SECTION F—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notification of Infectious Diseases 33
Admission to Infectious Diseases Hospitals 33
Laboratory Facilities 33
Food Poisoning 34
Diphtheria Immunisation 34
Vaccination Against Smallpox 35
Verminous Conditions—Scabies and Head Lice 36
Tuberculosis 38