[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.
- Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
- Date:
- 1955
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![iiiorc than 500 ])crsons consuinccl and c'njovcd this food witliont ill effects. TwcJity-one i)crsons enjoyed it and suffered severe vomiting and diarrhoea within two or three hours. In each of these cases the cau.se was not so much the meat, which was cer- tainly contaminated, but the manner in which it was kept after purchase, for in all these ca.ses the cooked meat was kept for 24 hours or more in food storage which lacked the coolness that would have prevented the growth of the infecting organism, and the contamination was enriched by growth beyond the critical point of safety and food poisoning resulted. The cooked meat was w'ell looked after in its j^lace of preparation, in good refriger- ated storage. There are three lessons from this outbreak. The first is a justification of careful low temi-)erature control in the storage of cooked meats in food preparing places to prevent any conse- quences from chance contamination. The second is that the most innocent person can unwittingly carry dangerous contaminating germs, against which the only sure defence is the strictest hygiene in food handling. The third is that the customer still has a^’duty to look after the food in a proper manner after its purchase if it is to be a good food and safe to eat, and that food hygiene applies at home ju.st as much as in shops and kitchens. Tuberculosis. table V Xumber of Notifications 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 Site/Sex M F M F M M F M F M F M F Lungs 16 9 11 10 9 10 14 4 14 6 13 9 13 6 Non- Piilinon- ary .=> 2 — 1 ! .1 1 — 1 4 1 1 3 2 3 No. of Cases Remaining on Register hi.12.55 Pu Imona ry N on-Pulmo n a ry M. F. iM. F. 121 80 22 Id The problem of tuberculosis was attacked in the following manner during the year. (a) Clinical supervision and care of diagnosed cases was centred on the Chest Clinic in co-operation with the general medical practitioner, the home nursing service (d>l cases), home help .service (7 cases) with a tuberculosis health visitor maintain- ing home contact with all cases (017 home visits), and the Chest Physician arranging hospital or sanatorium care,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29091536_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
