Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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SUMMARY OF CONDEMNED MEAT
Animals | Condition | Part Condemned | Number affected | Weight in lbs. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bovines | Tuberculosis | Carcase | 3 | 2,644 |
„ | Head and Tongue | 2 | 56 | |
Head and Lungs | 2 | 38 | ||
„ | Head, Tongue and Liver | 1 | 40 | |
„ | Lungs | 1 | 16 | |
„ | Lungs and Heart | 4 | 64 | |
„ | Mesentery | 1 | 3 | |
—14 | —2,861 | |||
Uraemia and Traumatic Pericarditis | Carcase | 1 | 715 | |
Dropsy | Carcase | 1 | 208 | |
Pleurisy | Lungs | 3 | 15 | |
"Flukes" | Liver | 3 | 194 | |
Abscesses | Liver | 1 | 16 | |
—9 | —973½ | |||
Calves | Tuberculosis | Pluck | 1 | 8 |
—1 | —8 | |||
Immaturity | Carcase | 1 | 12 | |
Oedema | Carcase | 1 | 135 | |
Fevered Flesh | Carcase | 1 | 40 | |
Fatty Infiltration | Liver | 1 | 3 | |
Fatty Degeneration | Liver | 1 | 2 | |
Abscesses | Liver | 1 | 3 | |
—6 | —195 | |||
Sheep | Dropsy | Carcase | 1 | 40 |
Emaciation | Carcase | 10 | 412 | |
Pneumonia | Carcase | 1 | 55 | |
Dropsy and Immaturity | Carcase | 1 | 12 | |
Cirrhosis (including "Flukes") | Liver | 27 | 68½ | |
Cysts, multiple | Liver | 10 | 24 | |
Congestion | Liver | 1 | 3 | |
Necrosis | Liver | 3 | 10 | |
Strongylosis | Lungs | 2 | 7 | |
Abscesses | Lungs | 1 | 1 | |
Pleurisy | Lungs | 1 | 1½ | |
Strongylosis | Pluck | 1 | 5 | |
Strongylosis and | ||||
" Flukes " | Pluck | 1 | 6 | |
—60 | —645 | |||
Pigs | Tuberculosis | Carcase | 7 | 685 |
„ | Head | 299 | 3,702 | |
„ | Head and Mesentery | 9 | 125 | |
„ | Head and Pluck | 1 | 16 | |
„ | Head, Pluck and Mesentery | 9 | 132 | |
„ | Head and Lungs | 2 | 32 | |
„ | Head, Mesentery and Spleen | 1 | 13 |