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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Paddington 1914

Report on the vital statistics and the work of the Public Health Department for the years 1914-18 (inclusive)

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FOOD SUPERVISION. 41
by the Council acting under powers conferred by the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1908. The inspections of premises where milk is sold during the five years
numbered 653—every shop being visited at least once in each year and a copy of the Regulations
left with the proprietor. Table 20 shows the number of cases of infectious disease
reported (1) on premises from which milk is sold, and (2) in the families of milk roundsmen
or in houses where such men reside. No spread of infection was traced back to any of the
2 milkshops or roundsmen.

Table: TABLE 20.

TABLE 20.

19141915191619171918
(1)(2)(1)(2)(1)(2)(1)(2)(1)(2)
Scarlet Fever318*311...713...4
Diphtheria...7...314...5...3
Enteric Fever......1.....................
Erysipelas.........1..................
Measles1......923114...2
Chickenpox........................1...
425424314121219

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♦Includes 4 cases of S.F. in the homes of men living in Paddington, but working in other boroughs.
(1J At milk shops (2) In the families of roundsmen or in the houses where roundsmen resided.
Ice Cream Trade.—Sugar-rationing, following calls to the Service, crippled this trade,
which was completely shut up in 1918. The records given in Table 21 tell the story without
any need of amplification.

Table: TABLE 21. Ice-cream Making: 1914-18. Makers and Vendors of Ice Cream on Register.

TABLE 21. Ice-cream Making: 1914-18. Makers and Vendors of Ice Cream on Register.

19141915191619171918
Businesses with which the sale of ice cream is combined :-
Sweetstuff55432212...
Newspapers and Tobacco2015125...
Restaurants149118...
General Dealers12944...
Bakers7752...
Confectioners8111610...
Greengrocers2222...
Milkshops2............
Totals120967243...

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1914 6 Resident, and 6 non-resident, barrowmen.
„ 2 cases of S.F. occurred at premises where ice cream is sold.
1915 Ice Cream sold from 6 barrows in Borough, and 2 outside Borough.
„ 2 cases of S.F. occurred at premises where ice cream is sold.
1916 Ice Cream sold from 4 barrows in Borough, and 2 outside Borough.
1917 Ice Cream sold from 4 barrows in Borough, and 3 outside Borough.
1918 The making of ice cream ceased.
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