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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk.
Milk is now delivered almost entirely in glass bottles, but the number of persons who have
applied for registration to sell milk in sealed cartons tends to increase.
No bacteriological examinations of milk samples were made.
At the end of the year the register was as follows:—
Cowkeepers 2 (6 cows kept)
Dairymen 17
Purveyors of milk 37
Milk under special designations was sold by dairymen as follows:—
Certified milk 9
Grade" A" milk 1
Grade " A " tuberculin tested 9
Pasteurised 9
Licensed to bottle Grade " A " T.T. milk 1
Licensed to pasteurise milk 2
Meat.
Although some registered slaughter-houses remain in the Borough, most of them have
not been used for a very considerable period, and slaughtering locally may be said to have ceased.
No seizure of unsound or diseased meat was made, but 74 lbs. of beef, 13 lbs. veal, 11½ lbs.
cooked ham and 40 lambs' hearts were surrendered during the year.
There are 41 butchers' shops in the Borough, which were kept under close supervision,
312 visits being paid for this purpose by the Sanitary Inspectors.
Other Foods.
Regular supervision of other shops from which foodstuffs were sold was also exercised,
the following visits being paid for this purpose:—restaurants and eating house kitchens and
grocers' shops, 323 visits; greengrocers' shops, 230 visits; fish shops, 95 visits.
The following unsound fish was surrendered during the year 84 lbs. skate, 235½ lbs. cod
and 14 lbs. kippers.
SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
The number of cases of notifiable infectious disease which occurred during 1934 is set
out in the following table. Cases in which the diagnosis was not confirmed on observation
subsequent to notification are not included.
Month
Diphtheria
Scarlet Fever
1
Puerperal
F ever
Puerperal
Pyrexia
Pneumonia
Primary
Pneumonia
Influenzal
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Erysipelas
Typhoid
Fever
Acute Poliomyelitis
Malaria
January
6
7
1
1
—
1
—
6
—
—
—
February
2
11
—
—
5
—
—
2
—
—
—
March
4
22
1
—
1
2
1
—
—
—
—
April
8
31
—
—
1
3
—
3
—
—
—
May
12
11
1
—
1
—
—
3
—
—
—
June
24
1
—
—
1
—
—
2
—
—
—
July
11
3
—
—
2
—
—
4
—
—
—
August
5
4
—
—
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
September
24
3
—
—
—
—
—
1
—
—
—
October
5
3
—
—
—
—
1
1
—
—
—
November
7
7
1
—
—
—
1
—
—
—
—
December
13
3
—
—
2
2
—
1
—
—
1
TOTALS
121
106
4
1
14
8
3
23
—
—
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