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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barking 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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throughout the country as a whole, or any particular part, to enact
any serious r61e, apart from other considerations in the etiology
of the disease. Tuberculosis in children is in the majority of cases
directly due to the ingestion of milk from tuberculous cows,
though at the moment no legislation exists requiring milk purveyors
to provide milk, free from tubercle bacilli.