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(b) The notification of Food Poisoning.
(c) Extending Section 47 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which deals
with unsound food, to include any article, solid or liquid, offered as a prize
or reward in connection with an entertainment or for the purpose of
advertisement.
(d) Empowering the London County Council to make by-laws for promoting
sanitary and cleanly conditions in the manufacture, preparation, storage,
transport or exposure for sale of any article intended to be sold as food. At
the end of the year the London County Council had not formulated the
by-laws referred to above.
vi. Institutional Treatment for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate Infants
and Homeless Children.
There are no special provisions for any of these classes in the Borough.
vii. Ambulance Facilities.
The London County Council's ambulance service is available:—
(a) For the removal to hospital, free of charge, of persons suffering from
infectious disease;
(b) For the removal, on payment, of persons suffering from non-infectious disease
to hospitals or other places;
(c) For the removal, free of charge, of cases of accident and sudden illness
arising in the streets or public buildings, to hospitals or home.
(d) For the removal, free of charge, of ordinary maternity cases between the
hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., and urgent maternity cases during the daytime,
when accompanied by a doctor or nurse.
In addition to these services the Council hire the ambulances of the London
County Council for the conveyance of non-urgent maternity cases, between 8 a.m. and
11 p.m., to hospitals in the London area. A note on the use of this service will be
found in the Maternity and Child Welfare Section.
viii. Vaccination.
I submit a return by the Vaccination Officer on the work carried out under the
Vaccination Acts for the year 1931.