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Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923 and 1927.—
Twenty-three samples of condensed milk were taken during the
year and each was found to comply with the Regulations in every
respect.
Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923 and 1927.—No
samples of dried milk were taken during the year.
Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations,
1925-1927.—The action taken in regard to the samples of food
found to contain preservative in contravention of the Regulations
is shown on page 86 of this report.
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1928.—
Pamphlets have been distributed to vendors of food in the Borough
drawing attention to the requirements of the various Orders issued
under this Act.
No contraventions of the Act were noted during the year.
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food.—The names
of the laboratories at which this work is carried out on behalf of
the Council are given on page 36 of this report.
Food Poisoning.—No case of food poisoning has occurred in
the Borough during the past twelve months.
In July last there was reported the case of a child who had died
after an illness lasting only a few hours. The clinical history was
thought to be suggestive of food poisoning. Material forwarded
to the Ministry of Health for bacteriological examination established
the fact that the child's death was not attributable to food poisoning
and subsequent investigation resulted in the death being ascribed,
at the Coroner's inquest, to sunstroke.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Hackney:—
(d) Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. (a) Erysipelas.
(g) Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. (h) Glanders.
(d) Acute Polioencephalitis. (h) Hydrophobia.
(e) Acute Poliomyelitis. (g) Malaria.
(g) Acute Primary Pneumonia. (e) Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
(c) Cerebro-spinal Fever. (i) Plague.
(a) *Chickenpox. (a) Puerperal Fever.
(a) Cholera. (f) Puerperal Pyrexia.
(a) Continued Fever. (a) Relapsing Fever.
(a) Diphtheria (or Membranous Croup). (a) Scarlatina (or Scarlet Fever).
(g) Dysentery. (a) Smallpox.
(a) Enteric (Typhoid or Paratyphoid) (b) Tuberculosis.
Fever. (a) Typhus Fever.
*Chickenpox became notifiable in Hackney on 7th February, 1930, by an Ordet
made by the Minister of Health under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.