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London County Council 1912

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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1912.
Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire
Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire, and from Ireland and
Wales; the samples were taken principally from churns at stations of the Great Western, the Great
Eastern, the Great Northern, the Great Central, the Midland, the Metropolitan, the London, Brighton
and South Coast, the London and North-Western, the London and South-Western, the North London,
and the South-Eastern, Chatham and Dover Railway Companies.

The following table shows the number of samples taken during the year under review, the counties from which they were derived, and the results of bacteriological examination at the Lister Institute.

County.No. of samples taken from churns for examination.No. of samples found to be tuberculous.No. of samples found not to be tuberculous.No. of samples the examination of which was not completed owing to accident and other causes.
Bedfordshire801772
Berkshire20771919
Buckinghamshire15131471
Cambridgeshire88
Cheshire323272
Derbyshire2563720118
Devonshire321
Dorsetshre553511
Essex..965901
Gloucestershire352321
Hampshire150221208
Herefordsliire11
Hertfordshire55550
Huntingdonshire11
Kent459333
Leicestershire26692543
Lincolnshire271251
Middlesex321
Norfolk725
Northamptonshire17041597
Northumberland11
Nottinghamshire33330
Oxfordshire13731286
Rutlandshire33
Shropshire17413
Somersetshire165121494
Staffordshire234172125
Suffolk8242
Surrey609483
Sussex175171517
Warwickshire908811
Wiltshire4034833619
Worcestershire1028
Yorkshire11
Ireland33
Wales33
Total2,9912412,644106

This table shows that out of 2,885 completed examinations of samples taken from churns consigned
to London, 241 proved to be tuberculous, i.e., 8.4 per cent. Some of the samples were
derived from churns containing milk from more than one farm.
The last annual report gave a similar account of 2,877 samples of milk examined during the
year 1911, of which 298, or 10'4 per cent., were found to be tuberculous.