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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 1928

[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.

Table: Diseased meat was destroyed as under:—

Diseased meat was destroyed as under:—

DescriptionDiseaseWeight
2 Beasts HeadsTuberculosis56 lbs.
4 „ Lungs„19 lbs.
1 „ PluckEchinococcus20 lbs.
5 „ LiversDistoma Hepaticum70 lbs.
3 „ „Cirrhosis42 lbs.
1 „ MesenteryTuberculosis1 lb.
11 Sheep PlucksParasites77 lbs.
11 „ Livers„44 lbs.
87 „ Lungs„261 lbs.
3 Pigs HeadsTuberculosis29 lbs.
13 „ Plucks„104 lbs.
2 „Congestion12 lbs.
7 „ LiversCirrhotic35 lbs.
10„ LungsTuberculosis60 lbs.
2 „Congestion7 lbs.
2 „Pneumonia7 lbs.
9 „Stronglyus Paradoxus34 lbs.
2 Legs of MuttonCaseous Lymphadenitis10 lbs.
Total weight888 lbs.