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Selling chocolate sweetmeat unfit
for human consumption.
Selling chocolate sweetmeat containing
an added substance.
Fined £20. £5. 5s. costs.
Heard in conjunction with above
2 summonses and marked "not
separately dealt with."
The weight of diseased and unsound food of all kinds surrendered
by tradesmen and dealers for destruction was 12 tons 15 cwts 2 qrs.
3 lbs.
No slaughtering of animals took place in the Borough during the
year.
Four hundred and ten inspections of the 180 dairies and milkshops
were made, and 4,564 inspections of food purveyors' premises, which
number approximately 1,000.
Licences issued under the Milk (Special Designations) Orders
numbered 65 (45 in respect of "Pasteurised" and 18 in respect of
"Tuberculin Tested" milk). Nine samples of "Pasteurised" and 1 of
"Tuberculin Tested" milk were taken, all of vhich complied with the
prescribed conditions.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1955. At the close of the year the
Register of persons entitled to sell poisons in Part II of the Poisons
List contained 8l entries.
MATERNITY AND CHILD Y-ELFARE. Miss D.K.Newington, Health Visitor,
v.ho had been acting as Alatron of the evacuated nursery at Ascot,
resumed her normal duties on the 28th September.
Miss M.MacLean and Miss E.M.Candler continued to be employed
with the First Aid Post Service and the Rehousing Department, respectively.
The staff engaged on health visiting at the end of the year
numbered 11 (including the Superintendent and 1 temporary Health Visitd
In order to meet the increased demand for the services of Home
Helps, an additional woman was engaged and commenced duty on the 14th
December.
Home visiting during the year is summarised in the appended table
First visits to children under 1 year of age 1559
Revisits 6256
7595
Visits to children between the ages of 1 and
5 years 8465
First visits to expectant mothers 947
Revisits l008
1955
Other visits:Sickness
(including Puerperal Fever,
Puerperal Pyrexia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum
and Infantile Diarrhoea) 107
Miscellaneous (including ineffective calls) 4710
4817
The number of children on the Health Visitors' lists at the close of
the year was 4295*
Infant consultations:- 356 sessions, 19,740 attendances by 2307
children.
Ante- and Post-Natal Clinics:- 105 sessions, 1,578 attendances by
487 expectant or recently confined mothers
Dental Treatment:- 11 nursing or expectant mothers received treatment
under arrangements made with Mr.F.H.Brinkley Tofts, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.)
Home Helps:- Provided in 59 cases.
Maternity Beds:- 88 women were delivered in the beds reserved at St.
Mary's Hospital. One case of Puerperal Pyrexia was notified. Then
was one stillbirth and two deaths within 10 days of birth.
Extra Nourishment:- 107 new applications were received of which 89
were granted. Approximate expenditure, including ancillary foods,
medicines, etc. £75.