[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Ince-in-Makerfield U.D.C.

  • Ince-in-Makerfield (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Ince-in-Makerfield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b) MEAT— There is no slaughter house in the district. Routine inspections are made of meatshops, etc., and the Clean Meat Regulations are enforced. All diseased meat is at once seized and destroyed by the Sanitary Inspector. (c) 18 BAKEHOUSES and 1 BRAWN WORKS in the district are all kept in satisfactory condition. The amount of food condemned or surrendered during 1936 as unfit for human consumption was as follows :— 1. Tuberculous Carcases and Parts—Nil. 2. Unwholesome Food (not Tuberculous) : 6 lbs. Veal, 98 lbs. Tinned Fruit, 31 lbs. Rabbit, 12J lbs. Bloater Paste, 9 lbs. Tinned Salmon, 111£ lbs. Tinned Milk. Food samples are taken for analysis under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, by the County Police, and by the kindness of the Police Superintendent for the Division, I am able to show the following fist of samples taken in Ince during 1936 : Arrowroot Baking Powder Boric Ointment Butter Barley Cheese Blanc-Mange Powder Cocoa Coffee Cornflour Borax Cayenne Fruit (Canned) Epsom Salts Jelly Lard 121 .4 .3 .1 .5 .1 .4 .1 .1 .3 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 9 Magnesia 1 Margarine 2 Meat Paste 1 Milk (Condensed) 2 Fish Paste 2 Ground Ginger I Glauber’s Salts 2 Rice 1 Sauce 2 Pepper 1 Seidlitz Powder 1 Tartaric Acid 1 Tea -1 Zinc Ointment 1 Milk '....68 According to the Analyst’s Certificates, all the samples were genuine. 6. INFECTIOUS DISEASE. 222 cases of notifiable disease were notified during the year 1936, as against 238 in 1935. 50 cases of Pneumonia were notified, as against 93 in the previous year, and 19 deaths were certified as due to this disease. 60 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified, as against 112 in 1935, and of the 60 cases, 31 were removed to hospital for treatment. There were no fatal cases.