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 Hampstead Borough]
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Nature of Sample. | Result. |
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Ox Tongue (Tin) | This was an intact tin and shewed no signs of spoilage. All cultures remained sterile after incubation for five days. |
Cooked Lunch Tongue (Tin) | Do. do. do. |
Cut Tongue | Cultures yielded a copious growth of Bacillus Coli and of non-lactose fermenting organisms. The latter proved to be B. Dysenteriæ. |
Do. | Cultures yielded a copious growth of Bacillus Coli but non-lactose fermenting organisms were not found. |
Ham | Cultivations from this ham yielded a growth of Staphylococcus and Proteus Morgani, Sonne Dysentery was not found. Proteus Morgani is pathogenic giving rise to diarrhoea. |
Pressed Beef | Cultures yielded a growth of B. Coli and proteus vulgaris. B. Sonne and other pathogenic types were not found. |
Mutton Wrapper | Cultures yielded a good growth of B. Coli. No. B. dysenteriæ were found. |
Do. | Cultures yielded a copious growth of Friedlanders bacillus, B. Coli and other nonlactose fermenting organisms. None of the Typhoid-Dysentery group were found. |
Counter Knives | Cultures were made from material after wiping the blades of the knives. B. Coli and few streptococci; no B. dysenteriæ. |
Cut Tongue | Cultures yielded a scanty growth of gram positive cocci. No pathogenic bacteria was found. |
Veal and Ham Pie | Cultivations from this specimen did not yield any growth of B. dysenteriæ or any other pathogenic organisms. |
Counter Cloth | Cultivations from this cloth yielded a growth of bacillus coli, staphylococci and lactose nonfermenting alkaligenes. Sonne dysentery or other food poisoning bacteria were not found. |
Tinned Tongue | No food poisoning organisms were found. |
Lamb's Tongue | No pathogenic organisms were found. |
Cooked Duck | The cultures from this specimen yielded a growth of bacillus of the Salmonella group. The bacillus was finally identified culturally and serologically as B. aertryche. |
(i) Meat and Slaughterhouses.
There is no slaughterhouse in Hampstead. A general supervision
of shops and premises concerned with the meat supply of the Borough
is exercised by all the Sanitary Inspectors, and observations kept to see
that the Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, are observed.