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The proposal has, however, been revived and further meetings have
been held. The education of children in the schools would appear to
present greater opportunities of useful action.
A great deal of discussion has taken place with regard to a Clean Food
Guild and Clean Food Campaign, but a Clean Food Campign is progressing
steadily throughout the year. It is worthy of note in this respect
that only four cases of illness were attributed to food poisoning by the
medical practitioners of the borough during the past year. The action
taken in order to protect as far as possible the cleanliness of food of the
Borough is summarised below, and is also contained in the statistics with
regard to food, contained in the body of the report.
The routine work of the department with regard to food covers the
following activities:
Bakehouses generally.
Basement bakehouses (enforcement of special provisions).
Dairies and Milkshops, Orders, General Powers Act, etc.
Enforcement of the large number of special Regulations and
Orders relating to standards of various articles and preparation
of food.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938—Sampling for chemical analysis, formal
and informal samples, procedure for prosecution.
Food and Ice Cream premises—Registration and Inspection.
Food Factories—Imported food, storage and distribution.
Food Poisoning—Notification and investigation.
Horseflesh—Supervision of Sale, etc.
Inspection of food premises generally, structure of special food
premises and by-laws relating thereto, prevention of infection of
food and drink.
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations—Licensing.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933—Registration.
Preservatives in Food—Regulations and Orders.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924-1948—Inspection of meat.
Inspection of butchers' shops and stalls.
Street traders in food—Inspection of market streets, stalls and
storage places.
Unsound Food—Voluntary surrender; seizure, condemnation by
magistrate.
An increase in the Tuberculosis Register can be explained in some
degree by the fact that in both County Council and Borough Council
estates, tuberculous persons have priority in the allocation of dwellings.
This has resulted in a number of tuberculous persons being admitted to
the extensive County Council estates in Stoke Newington.
Measles, of which there were 1,100 cases during 1951, appears to be
the highest figure recorded for many years, and this is also the case as
regards Whooping Cough, of which there are 293 cases recorded. This
increase was general throughout the County of London.