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(c) Section 80 of the Act requires registration of premises used for
the preparation or manufacture of sausages, or potted, pressed,
pickled or preserved meat, fish or other food intended for sale.
Three applications for registration were received during 1947, 2
of which were granted, the third being refused on account of the
unsuitability of the premises.
(12) Shops Acts, 1912-1934 (Sections 10 and 13). Since this Act came into
operation the Sanitary Inspectors have made inspections in accordance
with Sections 10 and 13 (3).
During the year, 1,937 inspections were made. 22 Preliminary
Notices were served, 17 of which were complied with. 2 Preliminary
Notices served in 1946 were also complied with.
3 Certificates of Exemption from the provisions of Sub-Sections 2
and 4 of Section 10 were granted in 1947.
There are three local Acts in operation—(1) The Ilford Improvement
Act, 1898, which has important sanitary provisions; (2) The Ilford
Urban District Council Act, 1904, the Section which deals with the
control of tuberculosis is repealed, the powers of the Corporation now
being contained in the Food and Drugs Act, 1938 ; and (3) The Ilford
Corporation Act, 1937.
The Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, repealed Section 62 of the Ilford
Improvement Act, 1898, dealing with the holding of a wake over a
body of any person who died while suffering from a notifiable disease.
This offence is now dealt with in Section 165 of the Public Health
Act, 1936.
(13) Nurses Act, 1943 (Part 2). Nurses' Agencies.
The Essex County Council, on application by the Ilford Council, delegated
to them, in pursuance of Section 11 (1) the powers conferrec
upon the County Council by Part II of the Act, subject to certain
conditions.
During 1947 a licence was granted to one Nurses' Agency in Ilford;
such licence expires on the 31st December 1948.
Agencies are inspected before the issue of a licence, and thereafter
at intervals of not more than once a quarter.
The Medical Officer of Health and his deputy are authorised under
Part 2, Section 9 (2) to enter and inspect any such licensed premises
in the Borough.
(v) Hospitals, Etc.
Isolation Hospital.—190 beds are provided. Of this number 20 arc permanently
maintained by the Essex County Council for the treatment of
advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Fifty-two of the remaining beds
were allocated to the Essex County Council for the reception of tuberculosis
patients up to the 9th August. From that date it was necessary to reduce the
number of beds available for this purpose to 32 owing to the shortage of
nursing and domestic staff and in order to provide additional accommodation
for cases of infectious disease, more particularly in view of the outbreak of
acute anterior polio-myelitis. The continued shortage of nursing and domestic
staff rendered it impossible to revert to the previous arrangement for the
reception of the 52 tuberculosis patients.
Maternity Home.—51 beds for the reception of maternity cases are maintained
at the Ilford Council Maternity Home.