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CONTENTS.
Page.
List of Staff 2
Preface 3
SECTION A—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Social Conditions 11
Births 11
Deaths 12
Maternal Mortality 12
Infant Mortality 12
Premature Infants 14
Illegitimate Infants 14
Comparative Statistics 15
SECTION B— GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
Clinics and Treatment Centres 16
Health Visitors 16
District Nurses and Midwifery Services 16
Moral Welfare 16
Home and Domestic Help Services 16
Ambulance Facilities 16
Day Nursery 16
Hospitals 17
Laboratory Facilities 17
Mortuary 17
Nursing Homes 17
SECTION C— SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 18
Sanitary Inspection 20
Sanitary Defects 23
Notices Served 24
Complaints Received 25
Petroleum Acts 26
Disinfection and Disinfestation 26
Rodent Control 27
Smoke Abatement 27
Rag, Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 28
Pet Animals Act, 1951 28
Diseases of Animals Act, 1950 29
SECTION D— HOUSING.
Housing 30
Council's Housing Programme 32
Closing Orders 33
Slum Clearance 3 3
SECTION E— INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Food Inspection 34
Food Premises 36
Byelaws 37
Richmond Clean Food Traders' Guild 38
Sale and Storage of Ice Cream 38
The Food and Drugs (Milk &? Dairies) Act, 1944 39
SECTION F- PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notification of Infectious Diseases 41
Admission to Infectious Diseases Hospitals 41
Food Poisoning 41
Diphtheria Immunisation 41
whooping Cough Immunisation 42
Vaccination Against Smallpox 43
Verminous Conditions Scabies and Head Lice 44
Tuberculosis 45