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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
West Ham 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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the advisability of Gonorrhoea being treated under conditions where facilities for adequate
surveillance and tests of cure may not be available, I have an impression that the facilities
provided at Queen Mary's Hospital are not known as widely as they should be.
Most of the patients attending this clinic come from the following area, Stratford, West
Ham, East Ham, Ilford, Leyton, and Leytonstone. The majority attend through the advice of
doctors, or friends and acquaintances. Comparatively few appear to attend as the result of
seeing a public advertisement.
FOOD
SAMPLING OF FOOD AND DRUGS MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) REGULATIONS. 1936 to 1948.
Particulars are given below of samples of raw designated milk which were taken during the year and submitted to the appropriate tests. The Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 19^9, which came into operation on the 1st October, 19^9, abolished the test for coliform bacillus and where tuberculin tested milk is bottled at the place of production, the word "certifled* Is replaced by the term, "farm bottled*.
| Type of Milk | Results of examination | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number sampled | Number satisfactory | Number unsatisfactory | Reasons for failure | ||
| Contained coliform bacillus | Failed Methylene Blue test and contained coli-form bacillus. | ||||
| "Tuberculin Tested (Certifled). | 48 | 4o | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| "Tuberculin Tested (Farm bottled). | 18 | 18 | - | - | - |
| "Accredited". | 23 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 89 | 79 | 10 | 3 | 7 |
k Letters of caution sent.
HEAT TREATED MILK„
Particulars are given below regarding the various types of heat treated milk which were
sampled during the year and submitted to the appropriate tests. The milk (Special Designation)
(Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 19^9, which came into operation on the 1st
October, 19^9, authorises the use of two designations only for milk treated by heat, viz:
^Pasteurised* and "Sterilised*. The term *he at "treated® is now abolished. The Regulations
also provide for a turbidity test for sterilised milk which now receives legal recognition.
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