Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 23.—Summary of Food Premises.
Type of Business | Totals |
---|---|
Hotels and boarding houses | 335 |
Restaurants, cafes and snack bars | 307 |
Grocers and provision merchants | 180 |
Canteens and clubs | 170 |
Public houses and other licensed premises | 161 |
Confectioners | 125 |
Refreshment houses | 93 |
Stalls, street trading | 91 |
Greengrocers and fruiterers | 58 |
Butchers | 55 |
Schools and nurseries | 50 |
Bakers | 30 |
Wine merchants (off-licence) | 30 |
Fishmongers | 13 |
Milk depots | 7 |
Coffee stalls and kiosks | 5 |
Ice-cream manufacturers | 3 |
1,713 |
TABLE 24. — Unsound Food Voluntarily Surrendered.
Description | Tons | Cwts. | Qtrs. | Lbs. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Meat and offal | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
Sausages, brawn, etc | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Canned meat | 3 | 10 | 1 | 14 |
Bacon and ham | — | 9 | — | 3 |
Poultry and game | — | 1 | 3 | 22 |
Canned food (other than meat) | 2 | 17 | 3 | 15 |
Fish | — | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Fruit and Vegetables | — | 3 | — | 27 |
Miscellaneous | — | 5 | 1 | 21 |
Totals | 12 | 3 | 3 | 24 |
TABLE 25.—Notifiable Diseases and Notifications.
* Notifiable Disease | Cases notified in whole Borough | Cases removed to hospital | Cases isolated at home | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At all ages | At ages—years | ||||||||||||||
—1 | 1— | 2— | 3— | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15- | 20- | 35- | 45— | 65— | ||||
Poliomyelitis— | |||||||||||||||
Non-Paralytic | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | - | — | — | - | — | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Erysipelas | 2 | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | - | — | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 |
Scarlet fever | 15 | — | - | - | — | 3 | 9 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 15 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | 12 | 2 | - | - | 14 | - |
Pneumonia | 7 | — | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Dysentery | 19 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | — | - | 5 | — | - | - | 6 | 13 |
Measles | 145 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 31 | 23 | 48 | — | - | 1 | — | — | 1 | 6 | 139 |
Whooping cough | 53 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 1 | - | — | — | - | - | 3 | 50 |
Scabies | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 |
Tuberculosis— | |||||||||||||||
Pulmonary | 55 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 18 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 27 | 28 |
Non-pulmonary | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 3 | — |
Food poisoning | 8 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 4 |
Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | 1 | — | — | — | — | - | - | — | - | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | - |
Totals | 326 | 13 | 28 | 24 | 40 | 34 | 90 | 4 | 3 | 44 | 15 | 24 | 7 | 67 | 259 |
* There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable: Smallpox,
diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, typhus fever, relapsing fever, continued fever, plague,
leprosy, hydrophobia, glanders, farcy, anthrax, malaria, induced malaria, paratyphoid fever,
typhoid fever, ophthalmia neonatorum, meningococcal infection.