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Addenda. —At the first meeting in March, 1904, the
Council "instructed the Clerk to write to the County Council
of Middlesex with reference to the veterinary inspection of
cows, as suggested by the Medical Officer of Health."—(Extract
from Minutes of Council.)
Extract from paper read by myself at the Annual meeting
of the British Medical Association in 1895:—
"Practically present action is restricted to preventing
the further spread of the outbreak after it has already worked
a varying amount of harm, but it is easily practicable to proceed
upon lines of true prevention that would aim at removing
the possibility of future outbreak. The necessity for further
steps is a growing one, for the reasons—1. That the cowkeepers
were becoming less and less generally the milk
retailers, and they were not, therefore, affected to anything
like the same extent as the latter by the consequences of a
milk epidemic; moreover, cowkeepers did not (and it seemed
would not) recognise the necessity of excluding the milk of
cows suffering from those transitory, often slight and generally
obscure, ailments that might furnish an infective quality to
the milk. 2. The establishment of large companies with large
and irregular areas of distribution was gradually displacing
the small man with a small and circumscribed area to supply,
and the result was a much greater difficulty in tracing the
origin of a milk epidemic."