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Farms
inspected in
English
counties.
This table shows that 0.5 per cent. of the cows examined were certified by the Council's
veterinary inspector to have clinical symptoms of tubercular disease of the udder. The supply of
milk for human consumption from the cows thus affected was immediately stopped.
It will be observed that inspection was made of the cows at 479 farms and only 63 cows were
certified to be suffering from tuberculosis of the udder. It should be borne in mind, however, that
various circumstances prevent the discovery at every farm of a cow suffering from tuberculosis of the
udder. In a number of cases, for instance, the farmer whose name was on the churn was found, on
inquiry, not to have sent the milk into London on the date on which the sample was taken. In other
instances, diseased cows had been removed before the inspector's visit; in others, again, a possible
source of mischief was a cow having tuberculosis in some part other than in the udder.
In nearly every case in which a tuberculous cow, or a cow suspected to be tuberculous, was found,
the farmer undertook to withhold the milk of the suspected animal from London.

Slaughterhouses.
18820 H 2