[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Malvern U.D.C.

  • Malvern (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Malvern U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (iii.) There are no public slaughterhouses. In 1920. In Jan., 1925. In Dec., 1935 Registered Slaughterhouses 9 9 10 Licensed Slaughterhouses — — — Total ...» ... 9 9 10 (c) Other Foods. During the year the amount and description of unsound food surrendered and! destroyed is as follows :— 6 samples Potted Meat. 2 samples Potted Fish. 25 samples Preserved Fruit. 1 3 samples Milk. (d) Bakehouses. These have received visits and usually gave satisfaction; the only remaining wood! oven has been converted during the year. There is one underground: bakehouse. No case of food poisoning in the area was reported. 7.—Prevalence of, and Control over, Infectious Disease. The incidence of notifiable infectiousi diseases since 1920 does not call for much comment. The two outstanding features have been, given in Special Reports, these were in reference to out¬ breaks of Enteric Fever and Diphtheria ; the former was im¬ mediately traced to a milk supply from outside of the District, and the: latter was: brought from, elsewhere to an institution ; and the District may be congratulated on having escaped what might have been devastating epidemics had not prompt action been taken to investigate and check the source of the infection. Diphtheria anti-toxin is provided for necessitous cases, but is seldom asked for, as the formal notification form, i-s: not waited for and patients are removed promptly to hospital on receipt of a telephone message. Four' cases of Encephalitis have occurred in the 5 years, 3 of which ended fatally. With regard! to diseases under the 1919 Regulations: I do' not think that all Cases of Pneumonia are notified yet. As mentioned above the! County Council Laboratory at Wor¬ cester is available to bacteriological specimens. Contact cases have been looked1 for in the schools and the school teacher's are very alert in finding anything suspicious. During the recent epidlemic of Scarlet Fever I discovered several children with suspicious desquamation on the hands and had them, excluded! from school : unfortunately the period Coincided with the end of the hopi-picking season, and the differentiation of desquamation due to: the bacillus Scarletinae and that due to* the picking of wet: hops was difficult.