Annual report / City of Calgary, Department of Public Health.

  • Calgary (Alta.). Health Department
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Annual report / City of Calgary, Department of Public Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITATION 16 The continuing acuteness of the housing situation with all its ramifications, coupled with sickness amongst the personnel of the sanitary control staff and the added work as tne result,(the work was carried on without extra staff) has spelt a busy year for the Chief Inspector and his assistants * All duties covered by this branch of the department have been satisfactorily performed. Police Court procedure was instituted only once during the year. After a remand, during which time the nuisance was abated, the defend¬ ant was reprimanded by the Court and the charge dismissed. The production, preparation and handling of foodstuffs has been rigidly supervised and the sanitary regulations in respect thereto enforced. The work done by this branch of the department is shown in the following table: r i J an Peb Mar Apli May; Jun in Aug Sep Oct I Nov Dec Total, Inspections .made. 1059 969 1232 1072119912291179 964 629 873 | 942 773 12320 j Notices issued, .written 18 23 23 27 18 j 21; 9 14 | 14 7 | 17 10 201 Notices issued, 93 78 107 214 116 96 108 91 I 94 63 ! 18 18 1096 C omplaints .received . 23 10 22 41; 31! 42 j 39 47 i 21 10 ] 18 16 320 Complaints justified 20 8 19 29] 31 3 7 j 34 42 17 8 ’ 13 12 270 Prosecutions 1 - — —j —; — - — — — — 1 MILK AND DAIRY INSPECTION There is always considerable activity in this branch of the Sanitary Control Division of the department, having in mind the dangerous hazards attendant on a loosely controlled raw milk situa¬ tion, and the many possibilities under which milk can oecome respon¬ sible for epidemics of one kind or another. Continued close watch over the herd, its housing, the methods of production of milk, the handling of milk from its primary source to the consumer, questions of transportation, and the final processing in the city’s milk plants, must atv’all times and without interruption be maintained, to assure the City the quality of milk it is entitled to and should insist on The small percentage of raw milk distributed in 1938 has been further lessened due to the purchase by one of the pasteurizing plants of the business of one of the raw milk distributors. Raw milk now shows but 6.35% of the total City supply. The work of this branch of the department is shown in the following tables: Of the 3621 sediment tests of producers samples, 3241 or 89.5% were good, 227 or 6.3% were fair, and 153 or 4.2% were bad. Of the 208 sediment tests of retailers samples, 208 or 100% were good. Of the 3596 methylene blue reductase tests of producers samples 3410 or 94.8% were Grade 1, 179 or 5.0% Grade 2, and 7 or 0.2% Grade 3 Of the 85 methylene blue reductase tests of retailers samples of pasteurized milk, all or 100% were Grade 1. Of the 123 methylene blue reductase tests of retailers samples of raw milk, 122 or 99.2% were Grade 1 and 1, or 0.8% Grade 2. Reductase test in accordance with American Public Health Association Standards.