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At the end of the year 146 premises were registered:-
Preservation of meat and manufacture of sausages 119
Fish curing 21
Manufacture of meat pies and jellied eels 5
Manufacture of Canned Soups 1
SECTION 17 (Notification of cases of Food Poisoning). A medical practitioner,
on becoming aware that a person is suffering from or suspected to be suffering
from food poisoning, is required to send a notification of this information to
the Medical Officer of Health,
Details of the 43 cases notified during the year are as follows:-
(a) Outbreaks due to Identified Agents - Of six small outbreaks, in five
instances two members of a family were involved, and the sixth
affected three schoolboys, making a total of thirteen cases. In
four of these outbreaks the causal organism was Salmonella Typhi
murium, in the fifth Salmonella Anatum, and in the case of the three
schoolboys, who were found collapsed in the street, a diagnosis
of Staphylococcal Food Poisoning was made but was not confirmed
bacteriologically.
(b) Outbreak of Undiscovered Cause This outbreak involved a man
and wife.
(c) Single Cases The bacteriological findings in the remaining twenty
eight individual cases were
Salmonella Typhimurium 15
Salmonella Thompson 1
Salmonella Anatum 1
Unidentified Salmonella Infection 2
Negative 7
No specimens submitted 2
SECTION 20 (Milk and Dairies Regulations)
(a) MILK AND DAIRIES REGULATIONS, 1949-1954. These Regulations require local
authorities to keep a register of persons carrying on the trade of milk distri
butor and of all dairy premises other than dairy farms in their district and
make special provisions relating to the production, treatment, handling and
storage of milk. At the end of the year 258 persons were registered as
"distributors", 26 operating from registered "dairy premises" in the borough,
31 from "dairy premises" outside the borough, and 201 were selling milk in
unopened containers from retail shops.
Legal action was taken against one distributor for three separate offences
Offence Result of proceedings Fine Costs
£ s. d. £ s. d.
(i) Failing to ensure clean- Fine and costs imposed 1 0 0 7 7 0
liness of vessel used for
containing milk.
(ii) Failing to ensure clean Fine only imposed 1 0 0
liness of vessel used for
containing milk
(iii) Failing to ensure clean Fine only imposed 1 0 0
liness of vessel used for
containing milk,