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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 1938
[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.
Carcases and Offal 2
Heads and Tongues 2
Sets of Lungs 7
Livers 2
Mesenteries 3
Swine.
Carcases and Offal 3
Heads 80
Mesenteries 112
Plucks 9
Spleens 5
Hearts 5
Livers 2
Sets of Lungs 3
Kidneys 2
Conditions other than Tuberculosis.
Bovines.
Livers : 5 Flukes,1½ Cirrhosis, 1 Echinococ-
cus Veterinorum 7½
Swine.
Carcases and Offal : 2 Dropsy, 1 Peritonitis 3
Sets of Lungs : 58 Congestion, 2 Pleurisy, 90
Pneumonia 150
Plucks: 6 Congestion, 1 Pleurisy 7
Kidney : Nephritis 1
Livers : 67 Cirrhosis, 1 Fatty Infiltration, 1
Peritonitis, 6 Congestion, 4 Cysts 79
Mesenteries : 2 Cysts, 4 Congestion 6
Hearts : 13 Pericarditis, 2 Congestion, 2
Pneumonia 17
Spleens : 2 Congestion, 1 Rupture, 1 Cyst 4
Head : Abscess 1
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