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Bakehouses.
There are two factory and two retail bakehouses in the district;
to these, 12 visits were paid in the course of the year.
Ice-Cream.
Section 99 of the Dagenham Urban District Council Act, 1931,
calls for the registration of (a) any person being a manufacturer
or vendor of or merchant or dealer in ice-cream or other similar
commodity within the district, and (b) any premises within the
district used or proposed to be used for the manufacture or sale
of ice-cream or other similar commodity.
During the year 5 visits were paid to premises at which this
class of goods was manufactured.
Shops.
215 visits were paid to foodshops, 385 to butchers shops, 97
to fish shops, and 39 to dairies and milk shops.
The following amounts of foodstuffs were condemned:—
Food 1200 lbs.
Rabbits 45 lbs.
Fish 569 lbs.
Food Poisoning.
Under Section 105 (1) of the Dagenham Urban District Council
Act, 1931, which calls for the notification of cases ot food poisoning,
18 notifications were received of which 13 were localised to the
practice of one medical practitioner and 4 to that of another.
The frequency of the various symptoms complained of were as
follows:—abdominal pain in 4, vomiting in 11, diarrhoea in 13,
fever in 9, and a rash in 4. No notified cases were associated one
with another, and in only two instances was a history obtained of
any other member of the family suffering at the same time from
similar symptoms. The cases occurred mostly, though not exclusively,
in the summer months. The commonest distribution
in age and sex was of females, aged 15 to 20, the next most frequently
affected being males of ages 25 to 35 and 35 to 45. Many
of the cases appeared to be illnesses due to some pathological
condition, others apparently being cases of hypersensitiveness of
the patient to the particular foodstuff ingested.
(c) Adulteration, etc.
Sale of Food and Drugs.
These Acts are administered by the Essex County Council.
During the year 305 samples were analysed, of which 57 were