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OUTBREAKS OF FOOD POISONING, AND CLEAN FOOD
CAMPAIGN
No cases of food poisoning were notified during the year.
NUTRITION
The nutritional standards of school children, as observed at routine
examinations, and children below school age, as observed at infant
welfare centres, are maintained at a very high level, the general
impression gained being that children tend to be taller and heavier in the
respective age-groups than formerly.
The Local Health Authority continued the scheme for the distribution
of welfare foods since it was handed over by the Ministry of Food in
June, 1954. Local issues are made from an office situated in the
Corporation Car Park by the Divisional Medical Officer's staff and
ladies of the W.V.S. Issues were also made at infant welfare centres and
at the branch library in Beddington. Grateful thanks are due to the
many volunteers, who so willingly co-operate in this important service
for mothers and infants.
Proprietary brands of vitamin preparations and some dried milk
foods continue to be available to mothers at infant welfare centres and
at the Town Hall.
SHELL FISH (MOLLUSCAN)
Only a small quantity of shell fish is marketed in the district, and is
obtained chiefly from Billingsgate Market, London.
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