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1927
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(b) For Ringworm. Positive. Negative.
Total Examinations—5 5 Nil
(c) For Tubercle. Positive. Negative.
Total Examinations—181 39 142
(d) Bacteriological Examinations of Milk 2
„ ,, Ice Cream 4
MEAT INSPECTION.
It was stated in last year's report that towards the end
of 1926, the Slaughter-house in Hanbury Road was acquired by
a firm that used to slaughter in Aldgate. All the meat in this
Slaughter-house is inspected by persons appointed by the Jewish
Ecclesiastical Board, any meat rejected as Kosher is laid aside
and inspected by the Council's inspectors.
In the other slaughter-house pigs only are slaughtered and
every carcase is inspected by the Council's inspectors and the
following tables set out the number of carcases inspected, together
with the meat condemned as unsound.
On one of the tables will be found the Counties from which
the pigs were consigned. There is a slight improvement all round,
but a most marked improvement in London and the Counties
immediately adjoining. From London and the Counties of
Middlesex, Essex, Buckingham, Sussex and Surrey 3,212 of the
pigs were consigned and only 45 of the carcases were diseased.
In the vast majority of cases, the disease is tubercle. From
London and these Counties the percentage of animals diseased
was only 1.4 compared with a percentage of over 4.5 in the pigs
from the rest of the Country. The figures are too small to draw
any general conclusions, but the improvement may have some
connection with the Orders made by the Board of Agriculture
for the prevention of the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease.
Some of the orders decree that all waste food-stuffs must be
boiled before they arc brought into contact with, or fed to animals.
Around London, most of the food consists of waste food-stuffs
collected from hotels and restaurants, but in rural districts and
especially in dairying districts a large portion of food is derived
from the surplus of skim milk. The practice still obtains of
feeding pigs with raw skim milk and the high proportion of
affected phoryugeal glands is probably due to the practice.