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County has an Act, part V of which regulates the manufacture and sale of icecream.
It is the habit of retailers in the district to bring unwholesome or diseased
articles of food to the Town Hall for condemnation, and this is a practice
beneficial to all. A condemned note is given to the retailer, and there is
usually little trouble with the wholesaler who supplied the goods.
The following list gives an idea of the kind and the quantity of food so
condemned:—
2 lbs. tomatoes and 1 bag of winkles.
1 barrel of hake and 1 box of herrings.
1 box of herrings and four pigs' livers.
1 box of herrings, 3 bundles of tomatoes.
1 61b. tin of Libby's Beef.
2 boxes of skate and 4 boxes of tomatoes.
1 sieve of blackcurrants.
4 bags of brussel sprouts.
1 box of fresh haddock.
It was hoped that the 1924 Meat Regulations were the first of a series
dealing with the exposure of articles of food to contamination, and that subsequent
Regulations would embrace many articles found on stalls or outside
shops, namely: cheap chocolates, broken biscuits, dates and other articles
which are eaten uncooked.
PREVALANCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
The year 1921 was characterised by a large number of notifiable infectious
diseases; excluding the various forms of tuberculosis, the actual number
notified was 956. The figure fell during the next three years to 570, 363 and
365 respectively, but went up to 441 for the year 1925.
The high figure in 1921 was due to the prevalence of scarlet fever and
diphtheria, two complaints which had been raging for some time previously
and which, apparently, had burnt themselves out.
Unfortunately, the same characteristics which were noted during these
earlier years with regard to diphtheria have appeared in Edmonton during the
latter months of 1925 and the early months of 1926; these were:—
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