London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Ealing 1971

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Table: TABLE 7ANALYSIS OF DISEASES AND CONDITIONS OF WHOLE PIG CARCASES CONDEMNED - 1971

TABLE 7

ANALYSIS OF DISEASES AND CONDITIONS OF WHOLE PIG CARCASES CONDEMNED - 1971

Total number inspected485,566
Dead on arrival221
Died in pens229
Diseases and conditions listed in Schedule 2, Meat Inspection Regs. 1963
Anaemia (advanced)1
Bruising (extensive and severe)10
Emaciation (pathological)-
Fever46
Jaundice7
Melanosis (generalised)-
Metritis (acute septic)1
Oedema (generalised)7
Peritonitis (acute septic)185
Pleurisy (acute diffuse septic)5
Pneumonia (acute septic)12
Pyaemia (including multiple abscesses)595
Septicaemia or toxaemia67
Swine erysipelas (acute)-
Tuberculosis (generalised)25
Tumours:- (a) malignant with secondary growths2
(b) multiple-
Uraemia2
Other Conditions
Leukaemia-
Moribund9
Damaged in dressing1
Arthritis (multiple septic)87
TOTAL1,512