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Food Stalls.
During the year food was sold from 87 licensed stalls in street markets in the Borough and regular
inspections were made for compliance with the requirements relating to stalls in the Food Hygiene
Regulations and the London County Council Byelaws for the Protection of Food.
Horseflesh.
There are no shops in the Borough selling horseflesh for human consumption.
Slaughter of Animals.
There are no slaughterhouses in the Borough but in the grounds of the Zoological Society of London
for many years there has been a knacker's yard, licensed by the Council, where animals are slaughtered
for feeding purposes. Ten inspections were made and conditions found to be satisfactory.
SECTION F.—INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES-PREVALENCE
AND CONTROL
There was an increase in the number of cases of infectious disease reported in the Borough, 467
notifications being received against 25!) the previous year. Of the total, measles accounted for 422,
the figures for 1960 and 1959 being 145 and 250 respectively. Cases of whooping cough reported showed
a decrease, 12 being notified this year as against 53 in 1960. There were no cases of poliomyelitis
and again no diphtheria. Table 23. page 40, gives details of notifications and the age groups
concerned.
Smallpox Contacts.
On arriving in London on the 4th April, the motor vessel " Strathnaver " reported that a member
of the crew had been landed at Suez on the 25th March suffering from modified smallpox, a diagnosis
which was confirmed by the Egyptian authorities. Nine contacts from the ship proceeded to addresses
in St. Marylebone and five of these subsequently moved to other districts. All were followed-up,
those who remained in the Borough being kept under daily surveillance until the end of the quarantine
period on 10th April. No further cases developed.
Tuberculosis.
Table 25, page 41, gives information regarding primary notifications of pulmonary and non-pulmonary
tuberculosis received during the year. Table 24, page 41, shows the age and sex distribution of new
cases and of deaths from all forms of the disease, and Table 25, page 41, sets out the number of cases
on the Tuberculosis Register at the beginning and end of the year with details of the adjustments
made in respect of new cases, transfers, deaths inwards and outwards and removals due to cases cured
and deceased.
Enquiries into housing and sanitary conditions involved 130 visits by one of the women public
health inspectors to all new cases and those moving into the Borough from other areas.
Food Poisoning.
Ten notifications were received during the year but two relating to members of one family were
withdrawn as the organism concerned, salmonella typhi-murium, was on that occasion thought not to
have been food-borne. Of the remaining eight, two were probably connected with outbreaks at
holiday camps, the organisms responsible being salmonella Newport and salmonella typhi-murium
respectively; three isolated cases were respectively stated to be due to salmonella enteritidis, salmonella
group ' B ', and staphylococcal toxin. In the other three cases no agent was identified.
Impetigo.
No cases of impetigo were referred to the Cleansing Station for treatment during the year.
Scabies.
The Council's Cleansing Station in Lisson Grove dealt with 65 cases of scabies : adults 46 (men 20,
women 26) ; children 19 (boys 9, girls 10).