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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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(a) Outbreaks of food poisoning due to identified agents: Two family
outbreaks, involving 6 notified cases were caused by Salmonella Typhimurium.
(b) Single cases notified totalled 15,
(c) The bacteriological findings in the 21 notified cases were as follows:-
| Organism | All ages | Under 1 year | 1- 2 years | 2- 3 years | 3- 4 years | 4- 5 years | 5- 10 years | 10- 15 years | 15-20 years | 20- 35 years | 35-45 years | 45-65 years | 65 and over |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salmonella Cholera suis Septicaemia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Salmonella St. Paul | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Salmonella Typhimurium | 18 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Salmonella Untyped | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 21 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
SECTION 27 (Inspection and control of infected food). If the Medical
Officer of Health of a district has reasonable ground for suspecting that any
food of which he or any other officer of the local authority of the district,
has procured a sample under the provisions of this Act is likely to cause food
poisoning, he may give notice to the person in charge of the food that, until
his investigations are completed, the food, or any specified portion thereof,
is not to be used for human consumption, and either is not to be removed, or is
not to be removed except to some place specified in the notice. No action
was necessary under this section.
SECTION 29 (Milk and Dairies Regulations)
(a) MILK AND DAIRIES (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1959, The Department's register
of distributors of milk and dairy premises, shows the following entries:-
Distributors of Milk -
(i) Prom dairy premises in the borough 27
(ii) Prom premises in the borough, other than dairies 188
215
Dairy premises registered 27
Legal proceedings were instituted in two instances as follows:-
| Fines | Costs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d | £ | s. | d | |
| Failure to ensure cleanliness of vessel used for containing Milk | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Failure to ensure cleanliness of vessel used for containing Milk | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
(b) MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) REGULATIONS, 1960. The following Dealer's
(pre packed) licences were issued by the Borough Council:-
(i) Tuberculin Tested Milk 86
(ii) Pasteurised Milk 177
(iii) Sterilised Milk 204
Nine samples of raw milk were submitted to biological examination for
tubercle bacilli with negative results.