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St Pancras 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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W. G. A. 2. Increase of leucocytes. Marked increase of bacteria. No
tubercle bacilli found.
W. G. A. 3. Increase of leucocytes. Marked increase of bacteria. No
tubercle bacilli found.
W. G. A. 4. Apparently normal. No increase of leucocytes. No tubercle
bacilli found.
W. G. A. 5. Apparently normal. No increase of leucocytes. No tubercle
bacilli found.
May 17th, 1899.
H. N. 1. Contained a fair quantity of pus and a few tubercle bacilli. Not
fit for human consumption.
H. N. 2. Dirty, contained vegetable debris, hairs, etc., otherwise normal.
Neither pus nor tubercle bacilli found.
II. N. 3. Dirty, contained vegetable debris, hairs, etc., otherwise normal
Neither pus nor tubercle bacilli found.
H. N. 4. Contained an increase of leucocytes amounting to pus. No tubercle
bacilli found. Not fit for human consumption.
H. N. 5. Apparently normal.
June 26th, 1899.
J. O. 1. Contained an enormous amount of organisms, showing that sufficient
care had not been exercised in the collection and handling of the milk.
Was very dirty.
J. 0. 2. Contained an enormous number of organisms, showing that sufficient
care had not been exercised in the collection and handling of the milk.
Was very dirty and beginning to clot.
J. 0. 3. Contained a very definite excess of leucocytes, but no tubercle
bacilli were found. Sample suspicious, and not advisable for consumption
as food.
J. 0. 4. Normal.
J. 0. 5. Normal.
July 3rd, 1899.
G. R. 1. Contained a considerable amount of pus, and a few tubercle bacilli.
This sample was totally unfitted for corosumption as food.
G. R. 2. Contained an amount of pus pointing to a very definite mastitis
(inflammation of the udder) of one or more of the Cows supplying the
milk, but no tubercle bacilli were found. The sample was not fit for
consumption as food.
G. R. 3. Contained pus pointing to very definite mastitis (inflammation of
the udder) of one or more of the Cows supplying the milk, but no
tubercle bacilli. The sample was unfit for consumption as food.
G. R. 4. Contained a very definite excess of leucocytes, but no tubercle
bacilli were found. Sample suspicious and not advisable for consumption
as food.
G. R. 5. Normal.