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the department saw and advised cases upon various aspects of their pregnancy.
Seventeen cases were referred to this Centre by the Council's Medical Officers under
the agreement between the Borough Council and the Hospital, six for diagnoses,
and eleven for their confinements in the institution.
Special features noted during the vear were : Version in, 2 ; contracted pelvis,
20; past history, 24; breech, 8; breech version, 10; albuminuria, 10; post
maturity, 5; and varicose veins, 3. The great majority of the cases were normal
before admission, and practically all who were treated ante-natally had normal
confinements. The number of cases admitted to the hospital was 180, and 214
were attended during their confinements in their own homes.
The cases nursed under the District Nursing Association numbered some 395,
of which 291 were amongst children under the age of five years. Of some 4,235
visits to patients of all ages, 2,667 were made to children under the age mentioned.
The various ailments dealt with were fairly numerous, but pneumonia, measles,
influenza, threadworms, tonsils and adenoids, otorrhoea, opthalmia neonatorum,
post partem troubles and miscarriage furnished the majority of the cases nursed.
Further particulars are given in the Appendix (p. 77).
STREET MARKETS AND FOOD.
The usual supervision was exercised by the Sanitary Officers as regards food
exposed for sale in the market streets, and generally throughout the Borough. The
following were surrendered or seized and destroyed as unfit for the food of man :
42 lbs. of meat, 9 half-pound jars of lunch tongues, 65 eggs, 42 lbs. of cods' roes,
12 boxes of kippers, 25 boxes of kippered mackerel, 112 lbs. of skate cuttings, 1½ cwt.
sprags, 18 boxes of apples, 28 lbs. of cherries, half a sieve of gooseberries, one truckload
and 4 tons 9 cwt. of greens, 16 boxes and 283 oranges, 2 tons 19 cwt. of savoys
one tub of strawberries and three bundles of boxes of tomatoes.
In the case of the eggs legal proceedings were taken against the person upon
whose premises they were deposited for the purpose of preparation for human food.
The offender was fined £2 and ordered to pay 2 guineas costs.
PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT) REGULATIONS, 1924.
The above regulations made by the Minister of Health, December 20th, 1924,
under the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, came into operation
April 1st, 1925. They contain provision for the regulation of slaughterhouses and
slaughtering, for the inspection and marking of meat found free from disease, and
for securing cleanliness in the handling, storage and transport of meat, there being
special provisions for the prevention of contamination of meat exposed on stalls
or in shops or during storage or whilst it is being conveyed from place to place in
vehicles or carried about in markets or other places where it is sold wholesale.