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17. Food and Nutrition. Public inspection of food has taken place
in this country since 1936, when the Food Adulteration Act caine into
force. This act ])rovides comprehensive control of all articles 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. The cliemical analysis work
is done at the Public chemical Analysis Institute in Reykjavik. 301
sanrples of food (milk excepted) w7ere submitted for analysis in
1942, out of which number 29 were found to be not up to the
standards (9,6%).
18. Hospitals, large and small, had in 1941 reached the number of
50 in the whole country, with 1195 beds, or 9,6 beds per 1000 in-
habitants, 44 of this number being general hospitals, Avith 724 beds, or
5,8%c. In the tuberculosis sanatoria there are 257 beds, or about 2,\%0.
Of other special hospitals may be mentioned: 1 lunatic asylum, 1
leprosarium and 1 small epidemic hospital in Reykjavik. The sick,-
days in hospitals amounted to 3,2 per head in the whole country
wtiile in the general hospitals the figure was 1,8 and in the sanatoria
0,75. Added tho this there is always a large nurnber of tuberculosis
patients in the general hospitals (cf. also tables XVII—XVIII).
Patients in general hospitals this year may be classified as follows:
Epidemic diseases ...................... 5,4 %
Venereal diseases ...................... 0,8 —
Tuberculosis .......................... 5,5 -—
Hydatid disease ........................ 0,1 —
Cancer and Malignant tumors ............ 2,6 —
Births, miscarriages etc.............. 13,5 —
Accidents .............................. 6,6 —
Other diseases ........................ 65,5 •—
19. Vaccination is compulsory in Iceland. 4761 children were vac-
cinated for the first time, 80% with full reaction, and 4078 revac-
cinated, 74% with full reaction (cf. table XIX).