Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 21.—Summary of Food Premises.
Type of Business | Totals |
---|---|
Hotels and boarding houses | 332 |
Restaurants, cafes and snack bars | 305 |
Grocers and provision merchants | 174 |
Canteens and clubs | 184 |
Public houses and wine bars | 165 |
Confectioners | 119 |
Refreshment houses | 94 |
Stalls, street trading | 87 |
Greengrocers and fruiterers | 61 |
Butchers | 52 |
Schools and nurseries | 49 |
Bakers | 30 |
Wine merchants (off-licence) | 29 |
Fishmongers | 13 |
Milk depots | 7 |
Coffee stalls and kiosks | 5 |
Ice-cream manufacturers | 3 |
1,709 |
TABLE 22.—Legal Proceedings : Food Hygiene.
Date of Hearing | Offence | Result |
---|---|---|
30.5.61 | Smoking whilst handling open food (Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960) | Fined £10 with 2 gns. costs. |
TABLE 23.—Notifiable Diseases and Notifications.
*Notifiable Disease | Cases, notified in whole Borough | Cases removed to hospital | Cases isolated at home | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At all ages | At ages—years | ||||||||||||||
—1 | 1— | 2- | 3— | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 35— | 45— | 65— | ||||
Erysipelas | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Scarlet fever | 13 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | — | 13 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | - | — | 4 | — |
Pneumonia | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Dysentery | 9 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Measles | 422 | 17 | 44 | 74 | 47 | 58 | 158 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 2 | - | — | 17 | 405 |
Whooping cough | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 10 |
Scabies | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | — | 11 | — |
Tuberculosis— | |||||||||||||||
Pulmonary | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | — | 1 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 17 | 23 |
Non-pulmonary | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 2 |
Food poisoning | 8 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Totals | 529 | 19 | 47 | 77 | 50 | 63 | 177 | 11 | 11 | 34 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 62 | 467 |
*There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable : Smallpox,
diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, typhus fever, relapsing fever, continued fever, plague,
leprosy, hydrophobia, glanders, farcy, anthrax, malaria, induced malaria, paratyphoid fever,
typhoid fever, ophthalmia neonatorum, meningococcal infection, poliomyelitis or acute
encephalitis.