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shall, if he suspects or becomes aware that any person is suffering
from food poisoning, forthwith notify such case to the Medical
Officer of Health.
During the year, 102 cases were notified of which one was not
confirmed. In addition, two cases were otherwise ascertained and
two dysentery notified cases were rediagnosed thus giving a total
of 105.
Local Morbidity
I am indebted to the Regional Controller of the Department of
Health and Social Security (London South Region) for the following
statistics relating to claims for sickness and industrial injury
benefits during 1967.
Local offices of the Ministry of Social Security concerned mainly
with the London Borough of Greenwich are those located at
Deptford, Eltham and Woolwich. Regions covered by these offices
are, unfortunately, based upon postal districts and not upon local
authority areas but, nevertheless, for most practical purposes the
figures quoted are reasonably representative of the Borough's
morbidity, subject to the following considerations :—
(a) Figures refer to new claims only—they do not indicate the
current "live load" which includes a good deal of long
term sickness.
(b) Figures relate only to persons insured for sickness benefit.
Sickness, therefore, in children, the aged, the non-employed
and "exempt" married women is not included.
(c) Injury benefit figures relate to all employed persons.