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Eighteen notifications of food poisoning were received but in
each case the illness was of a mild and transient nature. There were
no outbreaks of food poisoning.
At the end of the year 117 names and addresses were on the
Council's list of persons entitled to sell poisons under Part 2 of the
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933. The listed premises were
inspected and samples were obtained for examination. No legal
proceedings were taken in respect of offences.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
Fewer cases of notifiable infectious disease occurred in 1939 than
in the previous year. Scarlet fever cases fell from 340 to 319,
diphtheria 169 to 56, enteric fever 5 to 1, acute primary pneumonia
179 to 121, and erysipelas 104 to 86. The expected biennial epidemic
of measles did not occur, only 80 cases being notified during the
year. This disease, together with whooping cough, became compulsorily
notifiable on 1st October, 1938. Whooping cough notifications
numbered 633 as compared with 200 in the last three months of 1938.