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Notices of the time of slaughter are received by the Sanitary Inspectors,
who have paid occasional visits and examined carcases, but in no instance
were these found to be diseased.
All the slaughter-houses are privately occupied, and the numbers in
use at the undermentioned dates were:—
In 1920. In Jan., 1925. In Dec., 1925.
Registered 10 10 10
Licensed — — —
OTHER Foods.—The bakehouses were periodically inspected, and were
found to be in a satisfactory condition.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.— The County Medical Officer of
Health informs me that 87 samples of milk, 12 of cream, 4 of preserved
cream, 4 of butter, and 4 of other articles were analysed under these Acts,
that 8 samples of milk and 1 sample of cream were found to be adulterated,
and that there were 4 prosecutions with 2 convictions.
VI.—PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

In private houses, 32 cases of Scarlet Fever occurred in 26 houses, and
16 cases of Diphtheria in 12 houses, in 1925. In the five years there were
215 cases of Scarlet Fever in 161 houses, and 60 cases of Diphtheria in 48
houses ; of these cases, 55 of Scarlet Fever and 16 of Diphtheria were
notified in the Parish of Banstead, 41 of Scarlet Fever and 25 of Diphtheria
in Cheam, 42 of Scarlet Fever and 2 of Diphtheria in Ewell, 33 of Scarlet
Fever and 6 of Diphtheria in Ashtead, and the remaining cases in the other
nine Parishes.
There were 8 instances of return cases of Scarlet Fever in 1921 and
3 in 1922 ; 3 secondary cases occurred in 1 instance, 2 in another, and 1 in
each of the other 4 instances.
Nine of the 18 cases of Enteric Fever were notified as Paratyphoid B.
Fever; 2 of these cases at Ashtead and 3 at Cheam, in 1923, formed part of
a series of cases in this and neighbouring Districts in which the infection
was apparently conveyed by contaminated confectionery. In 1925, 4 cases