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CONTENTS.
Page.
List of Staff 2
Preface 3,4,5,6,7,8
SECTION A — STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Social Conditions 9
Births 9
Deaths 9, 10, 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 16
Nursing Homes 17
Services provided by the Surrey Executive Council 17
Services provided by Richmond Borough Council 17
Laundry Service for Incontinent Patients 17
SECTION C —SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Water Supply 18
Public Health Inspections 19
Public Health Contraventions and Defects 20,21
Notices to Remedy Contraventions and Abate Nuisances 22
Complaints 22
Disinfection and Disinfestation 23
Factories Act 1937 24
Atmospheric Polution 25
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 26
Shops Act 1950 27
Rag, Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 27
Pet Animals Act, 1951 28
Diseases of Animals Act, 1950 28
Petroleum Acts 29
SECTION D —HOUSING.
Housing. (Action under Housing and Public Health Acts) 30,31
Council's Housing Programme 32
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954 33, 34
SECTION E —INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Food Inspection 35
Sampling of Food and Drugs 36, 37,38
Classification of Food Premises 39
Improvements in Food Premises 39
Byelaws 40
Sale and Storage of Ice Cream 40
Milk-Licencing and Sampling 41,42
SECTION F — PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notification of Infectious Diseases 43
Admission to Infectious Diseases Hospitals 43
Food Poisoning 43
Diphtheria Immunisation 43,44
Vaccination Against Smallpox 44
Immunization against Tetanus 44
Tuberculosis 45,46