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Telephone: Public Health Department,
Feltham 2281 and 3281 Council Offices,
Feltham.
August, 1964.
To: The Chairman and Members of the Feltham Urban
District Council
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in presenting for your consideration the
Annual Report on the Health and Sanitation of your district
for the year 1963.
A scheme for free laundry service for incontinent
persons was inaugurated with also loan of draw sheets in
homes where insufficient sheets for a weekly laundry service
were found. This is not a costly scheme, it was used at once
and is a form of practical help to a household in this
difficulty. The W.V.S. are to be thanked for undertaking
the hemming of the sheets.
The Council informed the Middlesex County Council
that they would support proposals by the Middlesex County
Council, that there should be addition of fluoride to water
supplies in this district, after due consideration of the
evidence.
There have been no deaths from infectious diseases, if
is now 13 years since a case of diphtheria was notified here.
There were some unusual cases of interest concerning notifiable
diseases—one concerned a suspected but unproven
case of "malignant pustule"—a form of anthrax—in a man:
he rapidly recovered with treatment. Another, a proven
case of a pig's death from anthrax in an extensive piggery.
Fortunately there were no secondary cases. The wellpublicised
outbreak of typhoid fever in Zermatt, Switzerland,
had a Feltham implication, as a shop owner, selling
confectionery, contracted the disease there while on holiday.
In spite of considerable delay in establishing the diagnosis,
there were no secondary cases. This was certainly due to
the high standard of hygiene conscientiously maintained in
the toilet and hand washing facilities, and careful washing
of utensils used for food and drink on these premises. This
was all the more commendable in view of the very cramped
quarters behind the shop. Later in the year school children
and others travelling to the Continent on holiday were