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FOOD POISONING.
Four cases were notified. All were fully
investigated but only one was confirmed bacteriologically
when the causative organism was found to be salmonella
typhi-murium. In no instance was the source of infection
traced.
PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR
THE DISTRICT.
The general arrangement of the health services for
the District continues the same as in previous years.
The Middlesex County Council is the Local Health Authority
for the purposes of the National Health Service Act and
provides the services relating to the care of expectant and
nursing mothers and young children, the domiciliary midwifery
service, the home nursing service, the arrangements for
vaccination and immunisation, the ambulance service, and the
domestic help service. The County has been divided into
ten areas each with an Area Health Committee acting as a
sub-Committee of the County Health Committee. The District
forms part of Area No. 2 which also includes the Districts of
Southgate, Wood Green and Potters Bar. The Council is
represented on this Area Health Committee by Councillors
A.C. Henry and J. Foley.
For hospital services the District is within the
area administered by the North-West Regional Hospital Board.
Laboratory services are provided by the Central Public
Health Laboratory, Colindale, and the Laboratory, Coppetts
Wood Hospital, Coppetts Road, N.10. Both these laboratories
are directed by the Medical Research Council for the
Ministry of Health. The advice and assistance of the
Laboratory Service is available at all times in investigating
and controlling outbreaks of infectious disease or foodpoisoning.
Fortunately the need for such special aid did
not arise during the year, but the routine examination of
specimens has been, as always, of very great help.
The Public Health Department is a collecting centre
for specimens, which are called for daily, and the following
were sent for examination during the year:-
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