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CONTENTS
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Committees 1
Staff 2
Introduction 3
Physical Features, Social Conditions and Vital Statistics 6
Prevalence and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases 11
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 22
Housing 29
Legal Proceedings 34
Atmospheric Pollution 36
Factories and Outwork 38
Inspection and Supervision of Food 43
Welfare of Aged Persons 51
Health Education 54
Services provided by other authorities and voluntary organisations. 55
Appendix
Causes of deaths, in age groups, of Hackney Residents 1/2
Deaths from Cancer: period 1928-1952 3
Births, Deaths, Infectious Disease and other Rates - Registrar
General's Comparative table 1952 4
Births and Deaths, with Rates, in Hackney, and Birth and Death Rates
in the County of London and England and Wales 1928-1952 5
Notifications of Infectious and Contagious Diseases for the seven-
year period 1946-1952 6
Drainage works carried out by the staff of the Department at owners'
request and expense 7
Summary of the work of Sanitary Inspection 8/9
Works of repair executed under Section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936 10
Summary of Action under the Housing Act, 1936 11
Details of Legal Proceedings under the Public Health and Housing
Acts 12/20
Distribution of Food Trades in Sanitary Inspection Districts 21
Summary of Analyses of Food Samples 22/23