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CONTENTS.
Page.
List of Staff 2
Preface 3
SECTION A—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Social Conditions 10
Births 10
Deaths 11
Maternal Mortality 11
Infant Mortality 12
Premature Infants 13
Illegitimate Infants 13
Comparative Statistics 14
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 Nurseries 16
Hospitals 17
Laboratory Facilities 17
Mortuary 17
Nursing Homes 17
SECTION C— SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 19
Sanitary Inspection 20
Factories Act 1937 22
Shops Act 1950 23
Sanitary Defects 23
Notices Served 25
Prosecutions 25
Complaints 26
Petroleum Acts 26
Disinfection and Disinfestation 27
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 27
Smoke Abatement 28
Rag, Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 28
Pet Animals Act, 1951 29
Diseases of Animals Act, 1950 29
SECTION D— HOUSING.
Housing. (Action under Housing and Public Health Acts) 31
Council's Housing Programme 32
Moveable Dwellings 33
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954 33
SECTION E— INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Food Inspection 34
Sampling of Food and Drugs 35
Classification of Food Premises 38
Improvements in Food Premises 38
Byelaws 39
Richmond Clean Food Traders' Guild 39
Sale and Storage of Ice Cream 39
Milk—Licencing and Sampling 40
SECTION F— PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notification of Infectious Diseases 42
Admission to Infectious Diseases Hospitals 42
Food Poisoning 42
Diphtheria Immunisation 42
Whooping Cough Immunisation 43
Vaccination Against Smallpox 43
Verminous Conditions—Scabies and Head Lice 44
Tuberculosis 45