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17. Food nnd nutrition. Public inspection of food has taken place
in this country since 1936, when the Food Adulteration Act came into
force. This act provides coniprehensive control of all articles of food
and other nutritients. This inspection is in the liands of the district
medical officers of health and the sanitary coinmittees, in co-opera-
tion with the local police authorities. The chemical analysis work
is done at the Public chemical Analysis Institute in Reykjavik. 323
samples of food (milk excejited) were submitted for analvsis in
1943, out of which number 22 were found to be not up to the
standards (6,8%).
18. Hospitals, large and small, in 1943 numbered 49 in the whole
country, with 1186 beds, or 9,4 beds per 1000 inhabitants, 43 of this
number being general liosjiitals, with 715 beds, or 5,7%c. In the
tuberculosis sanatoria there are 257 beds, or about 2,0%c. Of other
special hospitals mav be mentioned: 1 lunatic asylum.l leprosarium
and 1 small epidemic hospital in Reykjavik. The sickdavs in hospi-
tals amounted to 3,2 pcr head in the whole country, while in the general
liospitals the figure was 1,8 and in the sanatoria 0,76. Added to this
there is ahvays a large number of tuberculosis patients in the general
hospitals (cf. also tables XVII—XVIII).
Patients in general hospitals this year mav be classified as follows:
Epidemic diseases ....................... 5,0 %
Veneral diseases ........................ 0,5 —
Tuberculosis ............................ 5,4 —
Hydatid disease ....................... 0,2 —
Cancer —- Malignant growths ............. 3,0 —
Births, miscarriages etc................ 12,6 —-
Accidents ............................... 7,3 —
Other diseases ......................... 66,0 —
19. Vaccination is compulsory in Iceland. 1282 children were vac-
cinated for the first time, 59% with full reaction, and 1336 revac-
cinated, 57% with full reaction (cf. table XIX).