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(b) PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGES OR POTTED PRESSED PICKLED
OR PRESERVED POOD INTENDED FOR SALE, Thirty one new premises were registered
one for the cooking of hams, 17 for fish frying and 13 for onion peeling.
At the end of the year the following 175 premises were registered:-
Preservation of meat and manufacture of sausages
Fish curing
Manufacture of meat pies and jellied eels
Manufacture of canned soups
Fish frying
Onion peeling
120
19
5
1
17
13
175
SECTION 23 (Prevention of spread of disease by ice-cream). Every manufacturer
of, or dealer in, ice cream shall, upon the occurrence of certain diseases
among the persons living or working in or about the premises on which the icecream
is manufactured, stored or sold, forthwith give notice thereof to the
Medical Officer of Health If the Medical Officer of Health has reasonable
ground for suspecting that any ice-cream or substance intended for use in the
manufacture of ice-cream is likely to cause any disease communicable to human
beings, he may give notice to the person in charge thereof that, until further
notice, the ice cream or substance in question, is not to be used for human
consumption. No action was taken under this section during the year
SECTION 24 (Sale of horseflesh). No person shall sell, or offer or expose
for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, any horseflesh for
human consumption elsewhere than in premises, or in a stall, vehicle or place,
over or on which a notice in legible letters stating that horseflesh is sold
there is displayed in a conspicuous position No person shall supply horse
flesh for human consumption to a purchaser who has not asked to be supplied
with horseflesh No contraventions of this section were discovered
SECTION 26 (Cases of food poisoning to be notified). This section provides
that a registered medical practitioner on becoming aware or suspecting that a
patient whom he is attending is suffering from food poisoning, shall forthwith
notify same to the Medical Officer of Health of the district During the year
57 cases of food poisoning were notified and in 55 cases there were positive
bacteriological findings
(1) Outbreaks clue to identified agents: There were five family outbreaks
involving 18 notified cases All were identified as being caused by
salmonella typhimurium There was also one outbreak involving eight
un notified cases in a building site canteen caused by staphylococcus
aureus.
(2) Outbreaks of undiscovered cause: There was an outbreak involving
eight cases in a school and one other outbreak involving 123 cases in
a school meals centre. Only two of these cases were notified
(3) Single cases: In 37 individual notified cases the causative organism
was identified.
(4) There were no individual cases where the causative organism was not
isolated.
Details of the positive bacteriological findings and age groups of the 55
persons involved are as follows:-