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Thorough and long-continued cooking is the best means of
destroying the bacillus, but there is a danger that ordinary
roasting and boiling does not raise the temperature of the
interior of a large joint sufficiently high for that purpose.
The greatest danger appears to be connected with the
use of uncooked milk. Cows are liable to tuberculous diseases
of the udder, and the milk yielded under these circumstances
was found to be very dangerous and produced tuberculosis in
all or nearly all of the numerous animals to which it was
given. Fortunately for us, boiling the milk, even for a minute,
has the effect of destroying the infective material.
Bake-houses.—These now number 41 and are regularly
inspected. The Factory and Workshop Acts and the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, provide for the regulation of
these premises as to cleanliness, ventilation, water supply and
drainage, &c., but unfortunately the law does not prevent the
construction of underground bake-houses. The Yestry of
St. George, Southwark, proposed a conference as to the state
of the law relating to bake-houses, and this conference took
place in October. Certain resolutions were passed by a small
majority after great opposition. The London County Council
having the subject of the amendment of the law with
reference to bake-houses, the framing of bye laws, and the
issuing of licenses to use premises as bake-houses, under their
consideration, your Yestry was of opinion that the matter
might be best left in the hands of the County Council.
Disinfection.—The number of houses disinfected after infectious
disease was 371 against 602 for the previous year, and
the number of miscellaneous articles, beds, &c., fell from