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requires almost expert knowledge. The whole of your staff of
sanitary inspectors have been endeavouring to obtain special
knowledge in this direction, and it may be possible in the near
future to arrange for a more perfect system of inspection.
Condensed Milk.—On the 31st August, one of the inspectors
brought to me for an opinion some tins of condensed
milk. On examination I found a clamping method had been
adopted for fixing the top of the tins. Such method was unsatisfactory.
The tins I examined showed signs of leakage and
it was fair to assume that under such conditions air could gain
access to the tins. On opening the tins the contents were
found to be decomposed. As a result of the examination the
whole stock consisting of 53 tins were surrendered by the local
vendor and destroyed.
Surrenders.—Other items of unsound food examined at
the request of their respective owners, and surrendered as unfit
for human food, were:—
2 cases of Australian rabbits 12 rabbits
4 boxes of skate 1 trunk of skate
3 „ hake 1 box of kippers
2 „ mackerel 53 ling
SUSPECTED MILK.
On the morning of Tuesday, the 20th November, I
received telephone message from the Medical Officer of Camberwell,
stating that he had received a letter from the Sanitary
Inspector of the East Grinstead Urban District Council conveying
the information that a case of Anthrax had occurred on
the farm of F. M., in the neighbourhood of East Grinstead.
The farmer was believed to be supplying milk to a dairyman in
the Borough of Lewisham. The animal affected was a milch
cow from which milk had been obtained the previous day, and