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Summary of work done by the official health visitors.
Ante-natal visits 1,157
Ante-natal re-visits 199
Births 1st visits 1,043
Births re-visits 195
Births stillborn 42
Ophthalmia 1st visits 46
Ophthalmia re-visits 36
Measles 1st visits 571
Measles re-visits -
Infantile deaths visits 20
Welfare centres attendances 126
Diphtheria prevention clinic attendances 513
Post-natal visits 1,115
Visits to children 1-5 years 319
Puerperal Pyrexia visits 17
Puerperal Pyrexia re-visits 2
Special visits:- evacuation, scabies,
etc. 1,654
One of the four official health visitors is still
seconded for temporary duty in a rocoption area#
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections (including war
damage to property, iron railings for
salvage, etc,)
11,477
Total number of re-inspections
21,891
Total number of intimation notices served
2,381
Total number o'f nuisance notices served
264
Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections
(factories, workplaces, infectious
disease, etc.)
2,769
Total number of re-visits
149
Total number of intimation notices served
81
Workshops in which defects were found
100
One sanitary inspector is still on loan to the
billeting officer and is engaged in repairs to requisitioned
billets among his many other duties.
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 224.
No application was made for orders for the
compulsory romoval of parsons to hospital under this section
compared with nine in the previous year.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Unsound Food. Approximately 19 tons of food was certified
as unfit for human consumption. In accordance with the
procedure now adopted very little of this amount was wasted,
as much as possible being used for animal feeding.
Sampling of Food & Drugs. 1,658 samples (1,600 informal
and 58 formal) were submitted to the Public Analyst and 30
samples were examined bacteriologically in the Council's
laboratory. In 7 cases proceedings were instituted for
contraventions of the Food & Drugs Act; in 4 cases convictions
were recorded; in 2 cases the summonses were dismissed under
the Probation of Offenders Act and the remaining case was
dismissed.
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