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Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections
(factories, workplaces, infectious
disease, etc.)2,167
Total number of revisits 170
Total number of intimation notices served 66
Workshops in which defects wore found 91
One male sanitary inspector is still on loan to the
billeting officer and is engaged in repairs to requisitioned
billets among his many other duties.
Public Health (London) Act, 1935, Section 224.
One application was made for an order for the compulsory
removal of an aged person to hospital under this section.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Unsound food. Approximately 31 tons of food was certified as unfit
for human consumption. In accordance with the procedure now
adopted very little of this amount was wasted, as much as possible
being used for animal feeding.
Sampling of Food and Drugs. 1,587 samples (1559 informal and 28
formal) were submitted to the Public Analyst and 2 samples wer9
examined bacteriologically in the Council's laboratory. In 1 case
proceedings were instituted for contravention of the Food & Drugs
Act, and a conviction was recorded.
The trend of legislation enacted since the advent of the
Ministry of Food has boen towards centralisation of control in
that Ministry and away from the central authority of the Ministry
of Health controlling the local administration of tha Food & Drugs
Authority. The Defence (Sale of Food) Regulations 1943 clearly
illustrate 'this new direction. They bestow upon the Ministry of
Food powers equal to those of the Ministry of Health (whose powers
under an Act cannot be altered by a regulation) and the latter
ceases to employ its powers in deference to the Ministry of Food
The latter Ministry by exercising its new powers is regulating the
compositions of foods and is able to enforce them without
necessarily making use of the Local Authority. The latter in fact
may not without the prior consent of the Ministry of Food take
legal proceedings in the case of any foods whoso composition has
so far been the subject of a regulation.
Decontamination of Food. Fortunately the need for the
utilisation' of this service has not yet arisen. The Food
Treatment Centre at Kennington Oval is equipped and ready for
action.
Slaughtering. 523 pigs (chiefly belonging to Pig Clubs) were
inspected at the time of slaughter
SCABIES AMD VERMINOUS PERSONS.
The incidence of scabies appeared to be on the increase from
1935 onwards so far as could be ascertained from information from
the school medical services, and skin departments of hospitals and
was not an evil directly attributable to war conditions although
doubtless aggravated by them.
A total of 1,939 persons were treated at the cleansing
station and given 4,121 baths compared with 1,467 persons treated
in the previous year.
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