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In addition to the above seizures, a large number of pieces of
meat, fruit, &c., have been removed from the show board and
destroyed at the request of the Inspector, the food being on the
border line of decay, but not bad enough to justify seizure.
In the other Wards, each Inspector is responsible for the
sale of unsound food in his own Ward.
Milk and Tuberculosis.
4. The County Council has made and is continuing to make
special inspection of all cows in London cowsheds for the
detection of tuberculosis of the udder. The result has been
very satisfactory, only 2 per 1,000 cows having been found with
symptoms of this affection. Unfortunately, there is no such
guarantee in the case of country cows, and most of the milk
sold in the Borough comes from outside London.
In consequence of my report on this subject, your Health
Committee directed me to arrange with the Jenner Institute
for the bacteriological examination of samples of imported milk.
Eight samples were taken during the year, and two were found
to contain Tubercle bacilli. I wrote to the firms from whom
the milk was purchased, asking them to arrange to have the
cows affected examined by an experienced veterinary surgeon.
Both nominally complied with the request; but one, on further
enquiry, stated that no cows had been found with Tuberculosis.
The other firm, which supplies many thousand persons, employed
their own well qualified veterinary, who found two cows
with tuberculosis of the udder. These were removed.
The power now being sought by the London County Council
under their new General Powers Bill, will, it is hoped, enable
them and the London Borough Councils to deal with such
cases more effectually.