{"title":"Salmonella minnesota infection in Northamptonshire.","authors":"D A McCRACKEN","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401201","url":null,"abstract":"-L until an explosive outbreak following the consumption of meat pies occurred in South-West Northamptonshire during the latter part of December, 1951, and the first few days of January, 1952. This type of Salmonella was first isolated by Pomeroy in 1936 and its antigenic formula determined by Edwards and Brunner’ in 1938. In this country it was first isolated from spray-dried eggs2 in 1947 and again identified as being associated with food poisoning in 1950.3 From March, 1950, until October, 1951, eight sporadic cases were reported in England, whilst during November, 1951, there was a small outbreak in the North of Scotland with two associated deaths.4","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 12","pages":"1091-4, discussion 1098-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-modelling a market town's water undertaking; Bury St. Edmunds.","authors":"N C GOLDSMITH","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401206","url":null,"abstract":"BEFORE dealing with the details of the reconstruction scheme which is now in its concluding stages, I think it might be of interest to refer to the history of the town in general and to the water undertaking in particular. The former has been the subject of research by competent historians, so the following notes are very brief and touch only lightly upon the rich and vivid history of the town, its Abbey and its people. Bury St. Edmunds supplies abundant evidence to warrant its claim of being an ancient borough. The finding of flint implements and fossil animal remains of the lower palaeolithic (acheulian) age suggests that the site now occupied by the town had human habitation in pre-historic times. It is also known that the Romans were at least in close proximity to Bury St. Edmunds, as Romano-British pottery, Roman coins and bronze ornaments have been found two miles to the south at Sicklesmere. Three miles to the east, at Rougham, there have been earlier finds of a similar character. Excavations made in 1949 revealed a Roman villa at Ixworth, six miles to the northeast of Bury St. Edmunds.","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 12","pages":"1106-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The bacteriology of pasteurized canned hams.","authors":"M INGRAM, B C HOBBS","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401216","url":null,"abstract":"THE large commercial losses caused by condemnation of spoiled consignments, -L complaints from consumers about the quality of outwardly sound material, and the identification of a &dquo; pasteurized &dquo; can of ham as the cause of an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning (Wildman, Nicol & Tee, 1951) have lately aroused considerable interest in Britain in the bacteriology of this product. Consequently, we have tried in this paper to review results obtained, in Britain, from the bacteriological examination of samples representing practically all the major producing countries outside America. Three separate, and rather different, investigations are here reported: (i) A routine examination of good commercial consignments, made to check general suitability for consumption, with particular emphasis on detection of faecal pollution and potential pathogens. (ii) A general investigation, on both sound and spoiled material, of the safety of such ham for human consumption, including a careful search for all potentially pathogenic types of bacteria of intestinal significance. (iii) A more thorough survey on a correspondingly smaller number of samples, from a chiefly ecological view-point, of the numbers and species of micro-organisms present in spoiled material.","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 12","pages":"1151-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401216","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The education and training of health visitors.","authors":"P E O'CONNELL","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401209","url":null,"abstract":"FTER six years of the National Health Service, the breadth of the new function of the health visitor is making itself evident, and, as training is akin to function, it may be necessary in the very near future for us to undertake a radical reorganization of our present health visitor training. In general, training may be described as the road between two points, at the one end the raw material which is the unprepared student, at the other the finished product or qualified worker. This road may be straight and economical to traverse, or it may be winding and lengthy, full of interest but extravagant of the energy which is needed to reach its end. In viewing the whole picture and applying it to health visiting it is necessary to consider three questions: firstly, the basic qualities and qualifications which we look for in the potential student health visitor; secondly, the development of what is found; thirdly, the ultimate goal, namely, the function for which we should cater.","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 12","pages":"1131-6; discussion 1141-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Administrative faults with reference to food hygiene.","authors":"E H BOX","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401202","url":null,"abstract":"cases following the consumption of meat pies manufactured in a factory in South-West Northamptonshire is described. Whilst a great variety of cooked and uncooked foods were prepared in the factory, the vehicle of infection was exclusively meat pies to which had been added, as is customary in the trade, a warm solution of gelatine. The original source of the infection and the method by which it gained access to the factory was not ascertained with certainty.","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 12","pages":"1094-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The duties and responsibilities of health visitors.","authors":"J M AKESTER","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401210","url":null,"abstract":"Another view is that the practical nature of the health visitors course may best be catered for under the legit of a college of technology. It may be said that, broadly speaking, the universities provide courses more of an educational nature, whereas the technical colleges emphasize more the qualifying courses for a profession or for industry. (vii) The examination-Somewhat involved with university status is the type of examination at the end of the course. Should a certificate be granted by the training body, or should we adhere to the principle of a national examination as being the most reliable in maintaining a good minimum standard of qualification ? In either case the final assessment of the candidate’s readiness for her proposed duties should be as comprehensive as her selection for training. Not only should her theoretical knowledge and ability come under review, but reports of her practical approach to the community and her success in teaching activities, both group and individual, should be considered by the panel of examiners. In an internal system of examination this is easily achieved as the examiners have personal experience of the student over a prolonged period, the external examiner being the only one who is a stranger to the candidate. In an external examination, the examiners must rely on a detailed report from the training school, which is necessary to ensure assessment of the student from more than the theoretical","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 12","pages":"1136-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The interim report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Slaughterhouses (England and Wales).","authors":"W B DE VINE","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 11","pages":"1052-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A suggested national meat inspection service.","authors":"S FORREST","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 11","pages":"1070-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing for old people; with special reference to rural areas.","authors":"R R HAYLETT","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401102","url":null,"abstract":"TOURING the past fifty years little has been done by local authorities or other bodies to provide housing accommodation in rural areas for old people, and it is not unusual ~to find the vast majority of these old people housed in the poorer type of property with the minimum of amenities and little chance, owing in the main to their financial status, ,of moving to better property in which they can spend the closing years of their lives an peace and contentment. ’","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 11","pages":"1021-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some aspects of the new building bylaws.","authors":"D R BRADLEY","doi":"10.1177/146642405407401107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/146642405407401107","url":null,"abstract":"M OST local authorities have now adopted the Model Byelaws, Series IV, Buildings, IVi with or without minor amendments. When the model was sent out to local authorities it was made clear that amendments were not to be encouraged, as it was particularly desirable that uniformity should be attained throughout the country. It is known now that many local authorities did persuade the Minister of Housing and Local Government of the need to make certain changes to meet some peculiar need or set of circumstances in their particular district. The following notes are based on an examination of the 1953 edition of the model and are intended to deal with the more important features. Some of the comment has arisen because of experience in the past few months of administering the new byelaws. When considering the byelaws it is important to remember that their scope is intended to cover the erection or alteration to many types of buildings in all parts of the country and in locations varying from a congested city to a sparsely populated rural area. It may be that some local authorities possess local acts to overcome possible shortcomings in the new byelaws. ,","PeriodicalId":86095,"journal":{"name":"Journal. Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain)","volume":"74 11","pages":"1029-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/146642405407401107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22815529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}