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Report of the County Medical Officer—General. 57
During the year 1913, 2,900 samples of milk were taken. The milk had been sent to London
from the following counties : Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire,
Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire,
Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire,
Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire,
Wiltshire 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.

This table shows that out of 2,779 completed examinations of samples taken from churns consigned
to London, 277 proved to be tuberculous, i.e., 9.9 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 2,885 samples of milk examined during the year 1912, of which 241, or 8.4 per
cent., were found to be tuberculous.
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