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27 jars marmalade
95 jars and tins jam
11 jars lemon curd
3 jars fish paste
54 jars chicken & tongue paste
2 jars Betox
1 jar Marmite
14 lbs. Bisto
12 tins pepper
7 lbs. mustard
36 lbs. salt
54 lb3, cake
2 tins biscuits
8 tins & jars of miscellaneous
food.
26 rabbits
1 tin of rabbit
238 lbs, rabbits
3 chickens
41 jars of sauce
40 jars of horse radish cream
6 jars mayonaise
79 jars pickle
6 bottles vinegar
43 bottles concentrated orange
juice
1 bottle lemon squash
3 bottles lemon & barley
During the year the following visits were made to
promises upon which food is prepared or sold:-
Bakehouses 184
Butchers shops 398
Restaurants and eating-
house kitchens; grocers
shops 1,406
Greengrocers' shops 350
Pish shops 266
MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT. 1938
The vehicles and/or storage accommodation of hawkers of
meat, fish and vegetables-were kept under observation by the
FOOD AND DURGS ACT, 1938
The middlesex country council are the
food and druge
authority for the borough
INFECTIOUS DISEASES '
(a) NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Diphtheria
During the year 4 cases of diphtheria were notified as
compared with 7, 25, 18, 25 and 70 respectively for the five
previous years. All four cases were admitted to hospital, The
exceptionally low number of notifications Is particularly
gratifying. One death only was recorded, giving a death rate
'of 0.01 per 1,000 of the population The figure for England and
Wales was 0,03,
Supply of anti-toxin. The arrangements whereby all medical
practitioners practising in the Borough may at any time obtain a
supply of diphtheria anti-toxin from the fire stations at Twickenham
or Toddington, free of charge,were continued during the year.
Diphtheria immunization. This work continued steadily
a rough out the year. A further publicity campaign was undertaken .
which Included advertisements in the local press, showing of slides
at the cinemas and exhibition of posters throughout the Borough.
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