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Lemonade Powder 3
Margarine 2
Meat 27
Meat paste 3
Meat products 16
Meringue Powder 3
Milk 209
Milk pudding, Canned 3
Mincemeat 4
Oats, Breakfast 2
Olive Oil 3
Peas 3
Peel, Candied 3
Pepper 3
Pickles 13
Puddings 5
Proprietary Poods 18
Rice 4
Salad Cream 2
Salt 2
Sauces, Mixed 16
Soups 7
Spice 6
Stuffing Mixtures 2
Suet 5
Sugar 3
Tea 5
Tomato Juice, Canned 2
Treacle 2
Vegetables, Canned 10
Vinegar 5
Wine, Alcholic 3
Others 27
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in the
Boroughs Anthrax, Cholera, Continued Fever, Diphtheria, Dysentery,
Encephalitis Lethargica, Erysipelas, Enteric Fever, Food Poisoning,
Glanders, Hydrophobia, Leprosy, Malaria, Measles, Membranous Croup,
Meningococcal Infection, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Pneumonia (Acute
Primary), Pneumonia (Acute Influenzal), Poliomyelitis, Polioencephalitis,
Plague, Puerperal Pyrexia, Relapsing Fever, Scabies,
Scarlet Fever (or Scarlatina), Smallpox, Tuberculosis (all forms),
Typhoid Fever (including Paratyphoid), Typhus Fever, Whooping Cough,
and Zymotic Enteritis.
Infectious diseases notified to the Department are visited by
the Public Health Inspectors at the earliest opportunity and disinfection
is carried out wherever applicable. Where the patient is
nursed at home, Public Health Inspectors visit to see that home
isolation is carried out satisfactorily, and at the end of the
infectious period, where necessary, the bedding, etc. belonging to
the patient is removed for treatment at the Disinfecting Station and
the rooms sealed and fumigated.
POLIOMYELITIS
There were six confirmed cases in the Borough during the year,
four being non-paralytic and two paralytic, with no deaths.
Altogether medical practitioners notified 27 patients as suspected
cases, almost all the notified cases being transferred to the Brook
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