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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 14
Comparative Statistics 14
SECTION B — GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
Clinics and Treatment Centres 15
Health Visitors 15
District Nurses and Midwifery Services 15
Moral Welfare 15
Home and Domestic Help Services 15
Ambulance Facilities 15
Day Nurseries 15
Hospitals 16
Psychiactric Services 16
Laboratory Facilities 16
Mortuary 17
Nursing Homes 17
SECTION C —SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 18
Public Health Inspections 19
Public Health Contraventions and Defects 20
Complaints 22
Notices to Remedy Contraventions and Abate Nuisances 22
Disinfection and Disinfestation 23
Factories Act 1937 24
Atmospheric Polution 25
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 25
Shops Act 1950 26
Rag, Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 27
Pet Animals Act, 1951 27
Diseases of Animals Act, 1950 28
Petroleum Acts 28
SECTION D —HOUSING.
Housing. (Action under Housing and Public Health Acts) 29
Council's Housing Programme 31
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954 32
SECTION E —INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Food Inspection 34
Sampling of Food and Drugs 35
Classification of Food Premises 37
Improvements in Food Premises 37
Byelaws 38
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 44