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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 in seven
instances food that was unfit for human consumption was voluntarily
surrendered to us by provision dealers.
No instances of food poisoning came to my notice during
the year.
There are 7 Slaughter-houses in the Borough. They are
well kept. Last year they were inspected on 05 occasions.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(See Tables F. and K.).
Small-pox.—There have been no cases of small-pox during
the year, although the disease occurred in neighbouring areas and
was prevalent in London during the autumn; but several contacts
of small-pox were discovered from time to time in the Borough.
These were kept under careful observation from day to day and
were vaccinated. Happily none of them developed the disease.
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.
During the summer I was able to visit the City of Gloucester
and to observe there, in the houses and in the isolation hospital,
many cases of the epidemic of small-pox, which caused such
financial loss to that usually prosperous city. The disease in
Gloucester was mainly of a very mild type of small-pox; but
some serious and confluent cases occurred. On my return from
Gloucester I visited all the cases of chicken-pox which were
reported to me in Hornsey, and found that a study of the contrast
between the two diseases was exceedingly valuable. Both Dr. Prior
and myself are frequently called by doctors to decide for them upon