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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
Finchley 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Diseased, or Unsound Meat, etc., Destroyed
The following is a list of the diseased or unsound meat
and other food which was detected by your inspectors and
subsequently destroyed:—
Tuberculosis.
Bovines.
Carcase and Offal 1
Heads and Tongues 4
Sets of Lungs 14
Liver 1
Mesenteries 4
Forequarters 2 (342 lbs.)
Heart 1
Swine.
Carcases and Offal 2
Heads 87
Mesenteries 86
Plucks 14
Spleens 7
Leg 1
Conditions other than Tuberculosis.
Bovines.
Head and Tongue: Actinomycosis 1
Sets of Lungs: Parasites 4
Livers : 8A Flukes, 4 Abscesses, 1 Congestion 13½
Swine.
Carcases and Offal : 22 Swine Fever, 1
Dropsy 23
Sets of Lungs : 18 Congestion, 3 Pleurisy
113 Pneumonia 134
Plucks: 10 Congestion, 1 Pneumonia 11
Kidney: Cysts . 1
Livers : 39 Cirrhosis, 1 Fatty Infiltration,
3 Necrosis 43
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