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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.- Practically all the milk for retail sale is
brought into the area from other districts.
The number of licences granted under the Milk (Special
Designations) Order, 1936, was as follows:-
Pasteuriser's Licence 1
Dealers Licences:
Tuberculin Tested Milk 4
Accredited Milk -
Pasteurised Milk 10
Supplementary Licences 4
Bacteriological Examination.- Eleven samples of milk were
taken for bacteriological examination under the Milk (Special
Designations) Order.
Food and Drugs Act, 1998.
The Council became the Local Authority under this Act on
1st October, 1939.
Sixty-three samples were taken up to the end of the year.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
During 1940, two hundred and sixty-one cases of infectious
disease were notified. These were seventy-four more than in 1939.
This increase is almost entirely due to the addition of measles,
whopping cough and food poisoning to the list of compulsorily
notifiable diseases. For several years the incidence of notifiable
infectious "disease in Wimbledon 'Has been low.
Scarlet Fever.- Forty oases of scarlet fever were notified,
fourteen less than in 1939. The attack rate was 0.80 per thousand
of the population. One death from scarlet fever occurred in a
Wimbledon resident outside the Borough.
Thirty-two, or 80.00 per cent of the cases were treated in
hospital. There was one death from this disease.
Diphtheria.- The number of cases of diphtheria showed a
marked decrease, there being only nine notifications in 1940 as
compared with twenty-four in the previous year. The attack rate
was 0.18 per thousand of the population.
All the patients received hospital treatment. There was one
death.
Diphtheria Immunisation.- Sessions of the Immunisation Clinic
were held every Saturday morning at the Health Centre.
Twelve children were Schick tested. Seven were found to be
positive and then immunised. The total number of children immunised
was thirty-nine. In all, one hundred and eighty-eight attendances
were made for this purpose. Nine children attended for a subsequent
Schick test. In all cases they were found to be Schick negative.
Enteric Fever.- In August, several cases of paratyphoid fever
were notified, and notifications continued to be received during
September. In all, nineteen cases of paratyphoid fever were
notified to the Department. In the investigations which ensued the
12.