View report page

23
area served by truck with mixed milk from all sources.
But if the milk from the proprietary farm were infective it
should have shown a much greater incidence. Hence it is
a reasonable deduction that it was not per se infective.
The supply obtained from the dealer carrying on business
at Salisbury was next taken into consideration. Stations
from which this milk was consigned during the month of
March are given above, and fuller particulars are contained
in the appendix. On enquiry it was ascertained that many
Dairies in Lambeth, in whose area of distribution no
Typhoid was found, had also obtained consignments from
this dealer: some from one station and some from another.
In fact, milk from all stations was in daily consumption in
Lambeth. Now, as no dairy other than Dairy B. had
amongst its customers a succession of Typhoid cases, and
as only a very limited number had any at all, it was unreasonable
to suppose that 20 cases appearing among Dairy
B.'s customers had derived their infection from milk consigned
by this dealer, or that milk supplied from this source
was per se infective.
The third and last source to be brought under consideration
is that of the sheds at Brixton. The yield, as before
stated, is reserved for a special purpose. After reaching
the storehouse it is measured into cans, and these receptacles
are sealed and labelled. Thus protected and secured
it is delivered on the rounds. Names and addresses of
householders receiving nursery milk are entered on a list,
but in none of the scheduled houses was a case of Typhoid
found. As the whole yield of the home sheds is applied in
the manner indicated, no suspicion can be attached to milk
collected from this source.
During the time to which this report relates, Dairy B.
was not in receipt of milk from any other places than those