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Bakehouses.
There are 4 bakehouses in the district (2 factory and 2
retail) there being none underground. 39 visits were paid
in the course of the year.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
These Acts are administered by the Essex County Council,
to whom Dr. Bernard Dyer is public analyst. Chemical
analyses, including that of water, effluents, etc., are carried
out in the County Laboratory, Queen Victoria Street, London.
In the latter part of the year the Local Council authorised
the Senior Sanitary Inspector to take samples for analysis.
Shops Acts, 1912, etc.
The Inspectors appointed by the County Council see that
the provisions of the Shops Acts and Early Closing orders are
complied with. The County Council can make arrangementwith
the Councils of Urban Districts for the exercise by the
Council of that district as agents for the County Council
Application was made to the Essex County Council in October
for that purpose, but the request was not complied with.
TABLE III.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Cases
Notified.
Admitted to
Isolation
Hospital.
Admitted to
Other
Isol. Hosp.
Admitted to
Other
Hospitals.
Deaths.
Scarlet Fever
340
124
—
—
2
Diphtheria
213
209
2
—
14
Enteric Fever
1
—
—
1
1
Puerperal Fever
13
—
—
8
2
Puerperal Pyrexia
10
—
—
2
—
Pneumonia
Primary
131
—
—
—
64
Influenzal
11
—
—
—
(includes
secondary'
Erysipelas
15
—
—
3
—
Encephalitis Lethargica
1
—
—
1
1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
20
—
—
1
—
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis
1
—
—
1
2
Poliomyelitis
3
—
—
2
—
Polioencephalitis
1
—
—
—
—