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1915 NEW ZEALAND.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE AID: REPORT THEREON BY THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER.

Presented in pursuance of Section 76 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909.

CONTENTS. Page Page Report of Inspector-General of Hospitals and Chief Appendix I (Public Health)— continued. Health Officer :— C. Appendices to Eeports— continued. Public Health .. .. .. .. 2 (12.) Immigration Restriction Act .. .. 35 Hospitals and Charitable Aid .. .. .. 3 (13.) Private Hospitals and Midwives .. 36 The Nurses Registration Act .. .. .. 6 (14.) The Sale of Pood and Drugs Act .. 37 The Midwives Act .. .. .. .. 7 D. Laboratory Reports .. .. 44 State Maternity Hospitals .. .. .. 7 To Waikato Sanatorium .. .. .. 8 Appendix II (Hospitals and Charitable Aid): — Statistical, — Appendix I (Public Health): — Table I.—Hospital and Charitable-aid ReA. Local Vital Statistics .. .. .. 9 ceipts .. .. .. 55 B. General Reports of District Health Officers .. 10 „ ll.—Hospital and Charitable-aid ExC. Appondicos to Reports,— penditure .. .. 50 (1.) Infectious Diseases .. .. ..12 „ 111. —Hospital Statistics (Goneral) .. 58 (2.) Dangerous Infectious Diseases.. ..19 „ IV.—Hospital Expenditure .. .. 60 (3.) Provision for Infectious-disease Cases ..20 „ V.—Statistics of Government Hospitals 62 (4.) Sanitary Conditions .. .. 20 „ VI. —Expenditure of Government Hos(s.) Sanitary Condition of Maoris .. .. 26 pitals .. .. 62 (6.) Sanitary Inspections .. ..28 „ VII.—-Charitable Institutions (Statistical) 63 (7.) Offensive Trades .. .. 34 ~ Vlll.—Charitable Institutions Expendi- ■ (8.) Insanitary Buildings .. .. 34 ture .. .. ..64 (9.) By-laws .. .. .. ..34 „ IX.—Levies and Subsidies for 1915-16 65 (10.) Quarantine.. .. .. 35 , „ X. —Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards (11.) Disinfection of Oversea Goods ~ 36 j (General) ~ ~ ~66,

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