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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wood Green 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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The Middlesex County Council is the Authority for taking samples under the avove Acts, and Mr. R. Robinson, Chief Officer of the Public Control Department has kindly supplied the following figures concerning samples taken in Wood Green during 1934:—
| No. of samples | ||
|---|---|---|
| Articles. | taken. | Adulterated. |
| Milk | 114 | - |
| Milk, sterilised | 21 | - |
| Butter | 2 | - |
| Cream | 1 | - |
| Cream pastry | 7 | 5 |
| Hake | 5 | 1 |
| Lemon sole | 2 | - |
| Meat | 1 | |
| Meat pie | 1 | - |
| Minced beef | 3 | - |
| Sausages | 3 | - |
| Whisky | 6 | - |
| 166 | 6 | |
| Number of prosecutions | 2 | |
| Number of convictions | 2 | |
| Fines and costs imposed | £4 4s. Od. | |
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The prevalence of notifiable infectious disease throughout the
district was considerably greater in 1934 than in the previous year,
the total number of notifications received being 448 as compared
with 362 in 1933. The increase could be accounted for entirely
by the increased prevalence of scarlet fever, which was responsible
for well over one half of all the notifications received. The total
number of cases removed to hospital or sanatorium was 402, a very
large increase on the number for the previous year, which was 311.