[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C. / Borough.
- Watford (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1949
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![films. Several parties of school children were conducted round the Exhibi¬ tion and thus received a very valuable lesson. The Exhibition was a success; it achieved»its object of enlivening the public interest, and it demonstrated to the food trade that to ignore food hygiene is bad business. The sanitary inspectors have continued their lectures to food handlers and by periodic inspection of food premises, have secured the following im¬ provements Defects remedied Registered Rooms other Rooms Food premises entirely or partly reconstructed - 7 Walls and ceilings repaired or renewed .... 6 6 Floors, doors and windows repaired or renewed • u Sanitary conveniences disconnected “ ] Ventilation improved .... .... • 13 Lighting improved .... .... 1 1 Rooms cleansed and redecorated .... 3 i<3 Apparatus, fitments or utensils cleansed, repaired or renewed .... .... 5 9 Accumulations of refuse removed .... 3 New refuse acconuiodation provided .... 2 Sinks repaired or renewed.... .... ? Hashing-basins, provided, repaired or renewed 1 Constant hot water provided .... h 8 Soap and towels provided .... .... 1 1 Water supply provided .... .... 2 Open shop front-closed .... .... • 1 Additional drainage provided .... • 2 Additional sinks provided.... .... 9 ... 21 125 Total 1f|6 9 In October, 19^9, the Ministry of Food issued Model Byelaws - Series 1, on The Handling, Wrapping and Delivery of Food and Sale of Food in the open Air. These were welcomed by the Council and adopted without amendment. A scheme for the application of these Byelaws to the various food trades has been considered and agreed by the Council. Food Poisoning Outbreaks. 1 • Eight outbreaks of food poisoning have been carefully investigated dur¬ ing 19U'9. Altogether 62 persons were involved in these outbreaks but for¬ tunately the illnesses were generally of a mild nature and none resulted in death. In six of the outbreaks it was impossible to obtain samples of the sus¬ pected foods and in five outbreaks bacteriological investigations failed to detect the responsible organism. in one outbreak where one person was infected with Salmonella typhi mur¬ ium, exhaustive investigations failed to detect the source of the infection and all the evidence indicated that the patient was a chronic carrier of the organism.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30239631_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
