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Lambeth 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.— Summonses.— continued.
| Offence. | Penalty. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | S. | d. | £ | S. | d. | |
| Brought forward | 41 | 15 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 1 |
| On 5th December, a summons was heard before Mr. Hopkins, at Lambeth Police Court, re selling Milk deficient in Milk Fat 10 per cent. | 2 | 0 | 0 | i | 9 | 0 |
| On 12th December, three summonses were heard before Mr. Hopkins, at Lambeth Police Court, re selling Milk deficient in Milk Fat 40 per cent. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| Re selling Milk deficient in Milk Fat to the extent of 16 per cent. | I | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| Re exposing a parcel of Margarine for sale, by retail, without having a label attached and marked in printed capita! letters, not less than 1½ inches square— "Margarine." | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
Tuberculosis.
1,190 samples of sputa from doubtful Tuberculosis
sumption) cases have been examined, and in 416 (i.e., 35 per
cent.) the bacillus tuberculosis has been found. In many of
these cases, the clinical symptoms of Consumption were conspicuous
by their absence, and the fact that bacilli tuberculosis
were discovered shewed that the patients suffering
were in the early stages of the disease, when sanatorium
treatment was most likely to prove successful. Several of
the cases, after open air treatment for lengthened periods
(6 to 9 months), failed to show, after repeated examinations,
the presence of bacilli tuberculosis, thereby pointing to the
disease having, in all probability, been arrested.
The large number of samples of sputa submitted is explained
by the fact that the Council on June 1st, 1902, made
Consumption (with tuberculous expectorations) a voluntary
notifiable disease throughout the Borough.
Typhoid Fever.
575 samples of blood from suspected Typhoid Fever cases
have been examined, and in 234 (i.e., 407 per cent.) the