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CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOCICAL EXAMINATIONS.
Work of this nature is carried out when required by Mr. H.
Amphlett Williams, A.C.C.F.C., F.R.I.C., Public Analyst, and the
Counties Public Health Laboratories.
NUTRITION.
During the year 1946, the first complete year since the cessation
of hostilities, His Majesty's Government were, unfortunately, obliged
to continue the rationing of foodstuffs. This has meant an unavoidable
shortage of animal food, with the result that average diets are
insufficient in first-class protein. While the nutritional standards,
with which we were familiar during the war have not worsened,
the Medical Officers conducting welfare centres have observed many
children in whom flabby muscles and poor appetite reflect the
insufficiency of their diet.
The grosser degree of malnutrition, such as rickets and infantile
scurvy, so common after the first world war, are no longer seen. A
few children, however, showed incipient manifestations of both these
conditions, and opportunity has been given throughout the year for
the purchase of products containing vitamins A and D and vitamin C.
The provision of these vitamin preparations, together with the continued
use of the Solarium, has been of the greatest advantage in
preventing nutritional defects amongst mothers and children.
SHELL FISH (MOLLUSCAN).
Only a small quantity of shell fish is marketed in the district, and
is obtained chiefly from Billingsgate Market, London.
ADOPTIVE ACTS AND BYELAWS.
The following Acts have been adopted: —
Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1890, Parts I, II and III.
Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1907, Parts I to VI and
VIII to X.
Private Street Works Act, 1892.
Public Health Act, 1925.
Public Libraries Acts, 1892-1919.
Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899-1923.
Byelaws in respect to the following are in force: —
Advertisements.
Allotment Gardens.
Animals, The Keeping of.
Buildings.
Fish-Frying and Offensive Trades.
Good Rule and Government.
House Refuse, etc., Removal.
Houses Let in Lodgings.
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