[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Southend-on-Sea Borough.

  • Southend-on-Sea (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Southend-on-Sea Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f SCHOOLS. The sanitary accommodation at the Higher, Elementary and Private Schools is subject to routine inspection, one hundred and twenty eight visits being made for this purpose. In the majority of the schools the accommodation is of modern design but in one or two instances the construction is antiquated and will require to be modernised when circumstances permit of this being undertaken. RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION ACT, 1919. Three hundred and ninety-six complaints were received and dealt with during the year, eight hundred and forty-one visits being made in administering the- Act. . INSPEC*riON AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD. A.—Milk Supply : Milk and Dairies Acts and Orders, etc. The following table shows the number of premises registered and the inspections made of same during the year :— Nature of Premises Cowsheds Dairies No. of Premises 11 25 No. of Inspections 163 243 The Milk (Special Designations) Order. Licences were issued by the Council pursuant to this Order as follows :— No. of Premises Licensed To produce Accredited Milk ... ... ... ... 4 To produce Tuberculin Tested Milk ... ..•. ... 1 To distribute Tuberculin Tested Milk bottled outside Borough ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 To Pasteurise Milk ’ ... ... ... ... 3 Eighteen samples of Accredited Milk, 8 samples of Tuberculin Tested Milk and 8 samples of Pasteurised Milk were submitted for examination, and of these 1 sample of Accredited ]\hlk failed to comply with the standards. Biological examination of Milk.. , Twenty-four samples of milk were submitted for examination for the presence of Tubercle Bacilli and all were reported to be negative. «