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CONTENTS
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Committees 1
Staff 2
Introduction 3
Physical Features, Social Conditions and Vital Statistics 5
Prevalence and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases 13
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area 25
Housing 36
Legal Proceedings 42
Air Pollution 44
Factories and Outwork 50
Inspection and Supervision of Food and Food Premises 56
Welfare of Aged Persons 71
Health Education 75
Services provided by other authorities and voluntary organisations 76
APPENDIX
Causes of deaths, in age groups, of Hackney Residents 1/2
Births, Deaths, Infectious Disease and other Rates - Registrar General's
Comparative table 1953 3
Births and Deaths, with Rates, in Hackney, and Birth and Death Rates in the
County of London and England and Wales 1929-1953 4
Drainage works carried out by the staff of the Department at owners' request
and expense 5
Details of Legal Proceedings under the Public Health and Housing Acts 6/13
Table of monthly findings from Atmospheric Pollution Recording Stations 14
Summary of Analyses of Food Samples 15/17