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(d) Responsibility for notifying a case, or suspected case
of food poisoning or infectious disease rests exclusively on
the medical practitioner attending the patient unless he
believes that another practitioner has already notified the
case.
By an Order made under Section 50 of the Health Services
and Public Health Act, 1968 the notification fee was increased
from 2/6d. to 5/-d. as from 1st October, 1968.
MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR LONG-STAY IMMIGRANTS
During the year advice notes were received from various
Port Health Authorities in respect of 98 immigrants who were
said to be proceeding to addresses in the Borough, an increase
of 23 on last year. In 63 cases successful contact was made
and appropriate advice given on health matters. Twenty-eight
of the remainder were coming to this country to work and live
at local hospitals, so were therefore not visited. This left seven
we were unable to trace and it might well be that accommodation
addresses were being used in these cases.
SMALLPOX CONTACTS
Fourteen passengers who had arrived in this country from
overseas were referred to the Department during the year for
surveillance. These persons had come from areas where Smallpox
was said to be endemic and did not hold valid certificates
of vaccination against Smallpox. The ports of entry were London
(Heathrow), Southampton and the Port of London.
FOOD & DRUGS ADMINISTRATION
A total of 478 samples (80 formal and 398 informal) were
taken during the year and examined by the public analyst. Two
formal samples of pork sausages contained slightly less than
the meat content considered appropriate for pork sausages.
Warnings were sent to the manufacturers concerned.
Regulations concerning the meat content of sausages and
other meat products will come into force on 31st May, 1969 when
it will be required for the minimum meat content of pork saugages
to be 65% and that for beef sausages 50%. It is not envisaged
that many manufacturers will fail to reach these standards, as
samples taken over the past few years have, in the main, been
at or above the required levels.
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