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FOOD.
The administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts is
in the hands of the Middlesex County Council.
Unsound Food.—No unsound meat, fish, fruit or vegetables
were found exposed for sale during the year, but about 500 lbs.
of food that was unfit for human consumption was voluntarily
surrendered to us by provision dealers during the year.
No instances of food poisoning came to my notice during
the year.
On the whole, the cleanliness of the food shops in the
Borough is of a high standard, but the danger of the "typhoid fly"
and of diarrhœal conditions that are carried by flies is not generally
appreciated by the keepers of the smaller shops. All food
and milk ought to be protected by gauze or by other means during
the fly season, and when customers for their own safety insist
on this we shall at once find a diminution in colic and diarrhoea
that occurs during the fly season.
There are 7 slaughter-houses in the Borough. They are well
kept, and were inspected on 30 occasions.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(See Tables F. and K.).
Small-pox.—There have been no oases of small-pox in the
Borough during the year.
The Borough of Hornsey contains no small-pox hospital, but
arrangements have been made for the treatment and isolation of
its small-pox patients at the small-pox hospital of the Uxbridge
Joint Hospital Board. The Borough of Hornsey now has the
right to use ten beds in this hospital. This satisfactory arrangement
was made towards the end of the year under review.
Typhus Fever, Continued Fever, Cholera, Dysentery,
Relapsing Fever, Trench Fever and Cerebo-Spinal Fever.—
There were no cases of these diseases notified during the year.