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The Brighton Authorities have in connection with contracts
for the supply of milk to the Borough Sanatorium imposed the
following conditions:—
1.—That the Contractor shall furnish to the Medical
Officer of Health certificates from a qualified veterinary
surgeon to the effect that
(a) The cows from which the milk supply is obtained
have been subjected to and failed to re-act to the
tuberculin test.
(b) That all re-acting animals have been removed from
the byres, and the latter cleansed and disinfected.
(c) That all new cows, purchased from time to time
during the period of the contract, have been
similarly treated.
2.—That the Contractor shall not supply milk from any
other source than the one defined above, without the
special permission of the Medical Officer of Health.
In a report upon the subject of notification, Dr. Newsholme,
the Medical Officer of Health, says—"It is evident that the
"voluntary information furnished has enabled us to adopt pre"cautionary
measures against the spread of infection at a much
"earlier period, and to a much wider extent than would have
"been practicable if we had been dependent solely upon death
"returns. I have not the slightest doubt that the precautionary
" measures thus adopted have been productive of great good."
We found almost without exception, a readiness to
"accept suggestions as to precautionary measures, and a degree
"of education on the subject, which was, to say the least,
unexpected. . . . The work done during the past half"year
indicates, in my opinion, the complete practicability of
"visits being made to phthisical patients without creating
"unnecessary alarm, and I am strongly of opinion that a large
"amount of good is being done by these visits."