Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OP FOOD. (Continued)
1945 | 1944 | |
---|---|---|
Inspections of bakehouses. | 112 | 104 |
Inspections of slaughterhouses. | - | - |
Inspections of premises where food is sold or manufactured, | ||
- meat. | 162 | 246 |
- fish. | 48 | 83 |
- provisions. | 508 | 909 |
- greengrocery and fruit. | 101 | 285 |
- hawkers . | 49 | 120 |
- food preparation. | 587 | 535 |
- other foods. | 35 | 47 |
Unsound food seized or surrendered (lbs.). | 2,313 | 2,604 |
Unsound tinned food seized or surrendered (tins) | 7,131 | 4,387 |
PREVALENCE OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
1945 | 1944 | |||
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Cases Notified. | Deaths. | Cases Notified | Deaths. | |
Smallpox. | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet fever. | 124 | - | 130 | - |
Diphtheria. | 24 | 2 | 11 | 1 |
Erysipelas . | 16 | 1 | 16 | - |
Pneumonia. | 25 | 37 | 50 | 56 |
Cerebro-spina1 fever. | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Epidemic encephalitis. | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis . | 7 | - | 3 | - |
Typhoid fever. | 1 | - | - | - |
paratyphoid fever. | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery. | 28 | - | 22 | - |
Malaria. | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Tuberculosis . | 155 | 52 | 186 | 44 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | 3 | - | 5 | - |
Puerperal pyrexia. | 45 | - | 87 | - |
Measles. | 1,109 | 1 | 219 | |
Whooping cough. | 110 | - | 171 | 3 |
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