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Notices were distributed to sipps for display therein requesting
customers not to bring dogs into shops. These notices were well received
and additional copies and replacements have been supplied..
Clean Food Leaflets were placed on the public counters in the Council
offices for distribution to housewives.
During the year the advice of the department was sought and given in
the design of a cafe kitchen which was to be rebuilt and enlarged. The
work now completed is a credit to the cafe proprietor.
FOOD POISONING.
Annual Return of Food Poisoning Notifications.
Food Poisoning Notifications (Corrected) Returned to Registrar General.
1st Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter, 4th Quarter. Total. Deaths.
Nil. Nil 5 2 7 Nil
Outbreaks Due- to Identified Agents.
Total Outbreaks, Nil Total cases. Nil
Outbreaks of undiscovered cause
Total Outbreaks. Nil Total cases. Nil
Single co.ses. 7
Agent Identified 3 Unknown Cause 4 Total 7
Although there is a slight decrease in the number of notifications of
food poisoning i.e., from 10 last year to 7 this year, there is a difference
in their composition. Last year the 10 eases were related to 2 incidents
or outbreaks, whereas this year the 7 notifications are individual cases,
not related in any way and apparently with no other persons suffering.
As is usual with individual cases it is most difficult,owing to delay
in the onset of symptoms and to other circumstances,to trace the source of
the infection. For example, two cases were men who had brought sandwiches
for their mid-day meal. Both were violently sick within 2-3 hours of
eating their sandwiches, and no causative organism was identified. In a
third case the organism was identified, but the patient was a commercial
traveller whose movements covered a wide area and variety of places. In
yet another case, the patient attended a "social evening" and ate food