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32 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 and 1879.
Of the 79 Samples (for list see Appendix A) submitted during 1892, ???
examination to the Public Analyst, 39 consisted of milk. Of this latter numb ???
no less than 13 were adulterated with added water varying in quantity from 5
60 per cent.; in one case 60 per cent. of its natural cream had been abstracted.
Of 23 samples of butter examined, five were found to be adulterated.
Of the total number of samples submitted to the Analyst 20.2 per cent., a ???
of the milk samples 27 per cent., proved to be adulterated.
In all 14 summonses were issued during the year, resulting in 13 conviction
one only being lost owing to a technical error in the filling in of the analys
certificate.
The fraudulent addition of water to milk and the abstraction of cream fro ???
milk retailed in London, cannot but have—especially in districts where the adultertion
Acts are not enforced—disastrous effects upon the health and life of Children
under five years of age, whose staple food consists of cow's milk.
It would be both beneficial and fair to consumer and retailer alike were t ???
Adulteration Acts more uniformly enforced throughout London than is at prese ???
the case.
Infectious Disease Inquiry.
In every case of infectious disease known to the Health Department, I ha ???
caused, in addition to an examination of the sanitary condition, drainage, and wat ???
supply of the infected premises, a special inquiry to be made, and the rosul ???
recorded, and kept in note books, which I have constructed for the purpose.
A copy of an unfilled-in leaf from one of these note books reads as follows :—
Date of inquiry. Occupation of patient.
Name and age of patient. Occupation of others in house.
Address. Source of infection.
Disease. Milk supply.
Date of first feeling of illness. Children attending schools.
No. of rooms. Tenants.
No. of family. Laundress
Isolation. Removal.
Precaution taken. Remarks.
The Prevention of the Spread of the Communicable Diseases
through the agency of schools.
By Sect. 55.—(4) of the Public Health (London) Act, every Metropolit ???
Medical Officer of Health is required, on the receipt of a certificate, notifying a ca ???
of infectious disease, to send a copy thereof within 12 hours after such receipt to th ???
Metropolitan Asylums Managers, and to the head teacher of the school attended
the patient (if a child), or by any child who is an inmate of the same house as th ???
patient.
Very shortly after commencing my official duties in St. George, Southwar
my suspicions were aroused, particularly with regard to the spread of scarlet fever
certain church and board schools, both within and outside this Parish, ar ???
inefficiently ventilated and closely crowded with infants and children, many