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8
Food Inspection.
Increased activity in the inspection of food in our weekday
and Sunday markets has led to considerable improvement
in the quality of food supplied to the public, and the cheap
butcher no longer hopes to sell or expose for sale meat of a
dangerous character in this borough, but takes it elsewhere,
where the food inspection is more lax.
Milk Supply.
It will be seen from the text of this report that many
samples have been taken for analysis. The objects of the
supervision of the Milk supply should be not only to secure
milk of good quality, but also to see that it is produced under
cleanly conditions, without exposure to the infection of diseases
such as Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, or Enteric Fever, and from
cows which are healthy and not suffering from Tuberculosis of
the udder. I am not quite satisfied that our milk supply is
supervised sufficiently to ensure the above conditions, and it
would be much more satisfactory if we could control our supply
from its source.
National Insurance Act.
The minds of all classes of people were filled during the
year 1912 with the social problems and legal obligations contained
in the National Insurance Act. Public officials were
intimately concerned for many of the arrangements, for the
efficient carrying out of the Act had to be made by them.
Your Medical Officer was intimately concerned with making
arrangements with the medical men of the borough for the
domiciliary medical treatment of tuberculous patients referred
to him by the Insurance Committee. In addition to which he
examines and supervises those of this Council's employees who
are receiving sick or accident benefit under an approved scheme
outside the Act.