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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD (Ccntd.)
(a) MILK SUPPLY (Contd.)
Two milk dealers were licensed during the year to produce pasteurised milk.
The table below gives particulars of the other
eighteen licneses granted during the year:-
Designation.
Dealer's
Licence
Supplementary
Licence.
Pasteurised
7
2
Tuberculin Tested
6
3
No refusal or revocation of licenses to retailers has
been made.
There are now twenty-nine persons registered in accordance
with the Food and Drugs, 1938, as under:-
Wholesale Traders or Producers of Milk 9
Retail Purveyors of Milk with premises in the.
district 9
Retail Purveyors of Milk whose premises are
outside the district 11
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(b) MEAT There is no Ministry of Food slaughterhouse in this
district.
(c) ADULTERATION ETC. Particulars not available.
SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF. AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION
Number of sessions 70
Number of attendances 1,344
Number of prophylactics given 566
Number of post-Schicks 336
Number of re-tests 87
Percentage of failure to immunise 7.14
Percentage successfully immunised 92.86
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (other than Tuberculosis) DURING THE YEAR.
Disease
Total
Cases
Notified
Cases
admitted to
Hospital
Total
Deaths
Scarlet fever
379
293
-
Diphtheria
8
8
-
Pneumonia
41
41
33
Meningococcal meningitis
3
3
-
Puerperal pyrexia
7
—
-
Erysipelas
12
7
—
(Contd.)
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