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St Pancras 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Borough. (3) Difficulty in diagnosis before death. (4) The doctor being under an erroneous
impression that the case has been notified in the Borough previously.
When necessary a communication is sent to the certifying practitioner asking for an
explanation of the circumstances under which formal notification was not made. No case
occurred in which it appeared to be desirable to institute proceedings for deliberate or wilful
neglect to comply with the regulations.
The interval elapsing between notification and death is an indication of the efficiency
of notification. In the following table the deaths from tuberculosis (from 1st January to
31st December) are classified according to this interval:—
Particulars of the inspections carried out by the Council's Food Inspectors during 1953 are given in the following table:-
| Number of visits to- | |
|---|---|
| Dairies | 354 |
| Milk distributors | 228 |
| Ice cream premises | 617 |
| Slaughterhouses | 13 |
| Butchers' shops | 817 |
| Prepared meat premises | 545 |
| Fishmongers' shops | 199 |
| Fried fish shops | 236 |
| Fish curers' premises | 63 |
| Other premises where food and drugs are sold | 1,425 |
| Market streets and places | 789 |
| Railway goods yards, warehouses | 109 |
| Catering establishments | 825 |
| Attendances at Police Court | 14 |
| Re-inspection after Intimation Notices | 204 |
| Other visits | 748 |
| Total | 7,186* |
*Note.—This table is compiled from all deaths from tuberculosis known to have occurred in St. Pancras
during the year under review, but the total does not as a rule correspond exactly with the total obtained from
the Registrar-General and shown in the preceding table because a few deaths may be allocated by him to the
previous or subsequent year.
D 3
(7090)
MILK SUPPLY The Number of dairies and milk distributors on the Register at the end of the year was: -
| Dairies | 108 |
| Milk distributors | 290 |
| Itinerant milk distributors | 36 |
| The number of persons registered for the sale of cream and artificial cream was: - | 11 |