Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Licences were granted to 2 local firms for the bottling of
Grade A (T.T.) Milk.
There are in the district 45 retailers and 9 wholesale distributors
of sterilised milk.
MEAT INSPECTION.
Slaughtering is still carried on at the one licensed premises in
the town. The occupier slaughters good class animals in a satisfactory
manner.
During the year 126 notifications to slaughter were received
and 40 beasts, 409 pigs, 815 sheep and 71 calves were examined.
Diseased meat was destroyed as under:—
Description | Disease | Weight |
---|---|---|
2 Beasts Heads | Tuberculosis | 56 lbs. |
4 „ Lungs | „ | 19 lbs. |
1 „ Pluck | Echinococcus | 20 lbs. |
5 „ Livers | Distoma Hepaticum | 70 lbs. |
3 „ „ | Cirrhosis | 42 lbs. |
1 „ Mesentery | Tuberculosis | 1 lb. |
11 Sheep Plucks | Parasites | 77 lbs. |
11 „ Livers | „ | 44 lbs. |
87 „ Lungs | „ | 261 lbs. |
3 Pigs Heads | Tuberculosis | 29 lbs. |
13 „ Plucks | „ | 104 lbs. |
2 „ | Congestion | 12 lbs. |
7 „ Livers | Cirrhotic | 35 lbs. |
10„ Lungs | Tuberculosis | 60 lbs. |
2 „ | Congestion | 7 lbs. |
2 „ | Pneumonia | 7 lbs. |
9 „ | Stronglyus Paradoxus | 34 lbs. |
2 Legs of Mutton | Caseous Lymphadenitis | 10 lbs. |
Total weight | 888 lbs. |