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17. Food cind Nutrition. Public inspection of food has taken place
in this country since 1936, when the Food Adulteration Act came into
force. This act provides comprehensive control of all atricles of food
and other nutritients. This inspection is in the hands of the district
medical officers of health and the sanitary committees, in co-opera-
tion with the local police authorities and under the supervision of a
special sanitary officer in Reykjavík (the capital). The chemical ana-
lysis work is done at the Public Chemical Analysis Institute in Reykja-
vik. 340 samples of food (milk excepted) wyere submitted for analysis
in 1941, out of w’hich number 30 were found to be not up to the
standards (8,8%).
18. Hospitals, large and small, had in 1941 reached the number of
in the whole country, with 1199 beds, or 9,8 beds per 1000 in-
habitants, 44 of tliis nuinber being general hospitals, with 728 beds, or
In the tuberculosis sanatoria there are 257 beds, or about 2,1%C.
Of other special hospitals may be mentioned: 1 lunatic asylum, 1
leprosarium and 1 small epidemic hospital in Reykjavik. The sic.k-
days in hospitals amounted to 3,3 per head in the whole country
while in the general hospitals the figure was 1,8 and in the sanatoria
0,79. Addel to this there is always a large number of tuberculosis
Patients in the general hospitals (cf. also tables XVII—XVIII).
Patients in general hosj)itals this year may be classified as follow’s:
Ejjidemic diseases .................... 3,9 %
Venereal diseases ....................... 1,3 —
Tuberculosis ............................ 6,9 —
Hydatid disease ........................ 0,2 ■—
Cancer and Malignant tumors ............. 3,5 —
Births, miscarriages etc............... 13,7 —
Accidents .............................. 6,9 —
Other diseases ......................... 63,6 —
19. Vaccination is comjmlsory in Iceland. 2099 children W'ere vac-
finated for the first time, 55% with full reaction, and 2267 revac-
cinated, 57% with full reaction (cf. table XIX).
20. The Occupation. The occupation of the country by the Americans
Was not followed by any marked changes in the relations between
Ihe j>opulation and the foreign íorces briefly referred to in the last
year’s rej)ort.