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St. Marylebone Clean Food Association.—The Executive Committee of the Association (Chairman
Mr. H. A. Hale, Hon. Secretary Mr. W. S. Moss, Hon. Treasurer Mr. D. W. Moeran) have kindly
provided the following information which is extracted from their report for the year 1954:—
" Membership of the Association.
During the year 13 applications for membership have been granted and of these 8 were new
proprietors of businesses which had changed hands and where the previous owners had also been
members. 12 members have withdrawn from the Association, 6 premises having closed down
and the remaining 6 had changed hands and the new occupiers have either not yet applied for
membership or their applications have been deferred. The total number of members at present
registered is 169.
Code of Practice.
We are again happy to record that no complaints have been made by members of the public
alleging the infringment of the Code of Practice by any member of the Association.
Food and Drugs Amendment Act 1954.
At the last Annual General Meeting mention was made of the Food and Drugs Amendment
Bill which was then before Parliament. It was anticipated that the Act would be one of major
significance so far as the food trades and food hygiene generally are concerned and, as was suggested
by the President in his address, the expectation of far reaching new requirements was bound to
have an unsettling effect. So far as the Association is concerned, these considerations have overshadowed
the year under review. During its passage through Parliament the Bill received many
and sometimes fundamental modifications and when finally it received the Royal Assent at the
end of November the long awaited Act proved to be little more than a piece of codifying legislation
which empowers the Minister to make regulations. These regulations have still not appeared and
meanwhile the Association can do little more than mark time.
Although our activities have thus been restricted during the year it is felt that the Association
continues fully to justify itself. If all members faithfully adhere to the Code of Practice their
standard of hygiene can leave little to be desired and in so doing they will inevitably strengthen the
confidence of the public in their own business and enhance the reputation of the Association."
SECTION F.—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
Infectious and other diseases notifiable in St. Marylebone are listed in Table 7, which gives also
information regarding notifications received during 1954. Enquiries relating to cases of infectious
disease were carried out by one of the women sanitary inspectors who paid 815 visits in this
connection during the year.

* There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable: Smallpox,
diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, ophthalmia neonatorum, typhoid fever, typhus fever,
relapsing fever, continued fever, plague, leprosy, hydrophobia, glanders, farcy, anthrax, induced
malaria, acute encephalitis (infective or post-infectious), paratyphoid fever.