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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk.
Milk is now delivered almost entirely in glass bottles, but in 28 instances milk is sold
in sealed cartons.
No bacteriological examinations of milk samples were made.
At the end of the year the register was as follows:—
Cowkeepers 2 (5 cows kept)
Dairymen 16
Purveyors of milk 38
Milk under special designations was sold by dairymen as follows:—
Certified milk 10
Grade"A" milk 1
Grade "A" tuberculin tested 11
Pasteurised 14
Licensed to bottle Grade "A" T.T. milk 1
Licensed to pasteurise milk 1
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 ceascd.
No seizure of unsound or diseased meat was made, but 37 lbs. of unsound meat was
surrendered voluntarily.
There are 4S butchers' shops in the Borough, which were kept under close supervision,
350 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, 330 visits; greengrocers' shops, 236 visits; fish shops, 103 visits.
The following unsound fruit was surrendered voluntarily during the year:—31 tins cherries.
SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
The number of cases of notifiable infectious disease which occurred during 1935 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
Puerperal
Fever
Puerperal
Pyrexia
Pneumonia
Primary
Pneumonia
Influenzal
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Erysipelas
Typhoid
Fever
Ceiebro
Spinal Fever
Malaria
Dysentery
January
25
1
—
—
1
—
—
1
1
February
2
4
—
—
6
1
-
1
—
—
March
3
4
—
—
1
4
—
1
—
-
-
-
April
1
1
—
—
2
1
—
—
—
-
-
-
May
1
5
1
—
—
1
1
—
—
—
—
-
June
3
4
1
—
—
—
1
1
—
—
-
-
July
1
6
—
—
1
—
—
2
—
-
-
-
August
2
4
—
—
1
—
—
1
-
-
-
-
September
—
7
—
—
—
—
-
—
1
-
-
-
October
3
1
—
—
1
—
—
1
—
-
-
-
November
1
1
—
-
1
1
-
-
-
-
-
December
—
6
—
—
—
—
—
1
—
—
—
—
totals
42
44
2
—
14
7
3
9
1
—
-
1