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Legal Proceedings - Food and Drugs Act, etc.
Defendant
Cause of Proceedings.
Result.
Irene Mee
"Duke of Clarence P.H.
132, London Road,
Selling whiskey 50.5°
under proof.
Fined £10 and
£10,10,0 costs
James Lewis,
7, Nicholson Street.
Selling milk containing
30% added water.
Fined £8 and
£5.5.0 costs.
James Lev/is,
7, Nicholson Street,
Selling milk containing
29% added water,
Fined £8, and
£5.5.0 costs.
Legal Proceedings - Public Health Acts, etc.
John Edgington,
8, Ponton Place.
Foul condition of room
and contents.
Abatement and
Prohibition
Orders.
Milksollors,
Retailors and Wholesalers In the Borough 227
Retailers and Wholesalers elsewhere 134,
Milk (.Special Dos lunations ) Order
Principal Licenses 43
Supplementary Licenses 12
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The notifications of infectious diseases received during the year
numbered 1,318 (excluding Tuberculosis) as follows:-
Scarlet Fever 240, Diphtheria 80, Enteric Fever 5, Paratypoid Fever 1,
Puerperal Fever 1, Puerperal pyrexia 9, Cerebro - spinal Fever 4,
Measles 621, Whooping Cough 208, Dysentery 7, Epidemic Diarrhoea 15,
Pneumonia 77, Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3, Erysipelas 47.
27 deaths due to infectious diseases were recorded:Whooping
Cough 2, Diphtheria 2, Measles 1, Acute infective,
encephalitis 1, Diarrhoea 21.
Diphtheria Immunisation. Immunisation against diphtheria was carried
out in the Council's Diphtheria Immunisation
Clinics and by general pratitioners in accordance with the Council's
Scheme for Doctors, The total number of children given preventive
injections during the year was 2,187 of whom 570 were under the age of
5 years,
Tuberculosis. 253 notifications of tuberculosis were received, of which
187 were in respect of pulmonary eases and 66 non-pulmonary. According
to the return supplied by the Registrar General the number of deaths from
tuberculosis was 81, 77 being pulmonary and 4 non-pulmonary.
Continued