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DESTRUCTION OF RATS AND MICE (continue).
Poisoning Campaigns: Business Premises - Rats: 65. Mice: 35
Private Dwellings - Rats:393. Mice: 827
Advice given to owners or occupiers carrying out their
own campaigns: 44
Preliminary inspections: 3,271
Pre-baits laid: 5,326
Poison baits laid: 1,105 Drains smoke-tested: ???
Unconsumed Baits cleared: 1,105 Number of Points baited: 24,2
Post-Baits laid: 1,105
In addition to the above, a treatment of the whole of the
sewers throughout the Borough was carried out from2nd to 5th
December (inclusive).
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Routine inspections of premises at which the preparation,
storage or sale of food is carried out, were made by the
Inspectors. Unsound food was either destroyed or disposed of
for purposes other than human consumption. No legal proceedings,
consequent upon contraventions of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938,
were taken.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. Analyses were made of 402 samples submitted
to the Public Analyst. of this total, 141 were taken as "formal"
and 26l as "informal". Eight samples were reported to be
adulterated. All vendors concerned were the recipients of
warning letters, either from the Borough Council or the Ministry
of Food. All other samples were returned as genuine.
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
NOTIFICATIONS. The total (corrected) number of notifications
received during the year (686) was made up as follows:-
Diphtheria
14
Dysentery
46
Erysipelas
8
Acute Primary Pneumonia
8
Scarlet Fever
80
Measles
193
Enteric Fever
1
Whooping Cough
ll6
Puerperal Fever
1
Scabies
131
Puerperal Pyrexia
11
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
63
Cerebro-spinal fever
4
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis
4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
4
Poliomyelitis
1
Malaria
1
DIPHTHERIA. 14 cases were notified. Of these, 10 were children,
7 of them being inmates of an Institution situated within the
Borough. There were no deaths. None of the cases had completed
a full course of immunisation before the onset of the disease.
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION. A weekly clinic was held at the
Violet Melchett Infant welfare Centre throughout the year.
Sessions were also carried out by the Centre at various schools
in the Borough. The total number of new cases dealt with during
1946 was 640, as compared with 386 in 1945.