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In concluding these notes, reference may be made to the desirability of the appointment,
by the Ministry of Health, of a small, more or less permanent Committee which should
have power to fix or vary standards and, if need be, approve methods of analysis, so that
greater protection might be afforded to the purchasing public against the substitution of
inferior and adulterated articles. As instances, some kind of official Standard is required for
the quantity of fat in Cream, and some more precise definition for the fat contained in
"Cream" Pastries, one maker using real cream, while another deems any fat made up to
look like cream to be sufficient. Also a standard for Cheese, and especially " Cream " Cheese,
is urgently needed. Other articles could be mentioned, but these will be enough to indicate
the advantages to be gained by the appointment of such a body as is suggested.
Section VI.—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
The undermentioned diseases are compulsorily notifiable in St. Pancras:—
A. Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891:-
Small-pox (Variola) Typhus Fever
Cholera Typhoid „
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup Enteric „
Erysipelas Relapsing „
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) Continued „
Puerperal ,,
B. Under Special Regulations made by the Ministry of Health granted
under powers contained in the Public Health Acts:-
Plague (1900)
Cerebro-spinal Fever and Acute Poliomyelitis (1912)
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica and Acute Polio-encephalitis (1919)
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia (1926, 1928)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (1926, 1928)
Tuberculosis (1930);
and the Infections Diseases (London) Regulations, 1027, for
Malaria Dysentery
Acute Primary Pneumonia Acute Influenzal Pneumonia ;
and wherein Enteric Fever is defined to include the
Paratyphoid group of Fevers
C. Under a Special Local Order of the Ministry of Health in 1920:-
Measles German Measles
D. Under a Special Order of the London County Council in 1909:-
Glanders Anthrax
Hydrophobia "when these occur in man."
E. Under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932:-
Food Poisoning.