[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford] page 19

Chingford 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]

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Table: The following list gives details of the diseased or unsound meat, included in the above table, which was voluntarily surrendered and destroyed:

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The following list gives details of the diseased or unsound meat, included in the above table, which was voluntarily surrendered and destroyed:

Article	Condition	Weight
1 bullock's head and tongue	Tuberculosis	34 lbs.
2 bullock's lungs	„	20 lbs.
2 bullock's mesenteries	„	8 lbs.
1 bullock's thick flank, thin flank and portion of rump		25 lbs.
5 pig's heads	„	40 lbs.
1 pig's pluck	„	3 lbs.
3 bullock's livers	Flukes	40 lbs.
3½ pig's livers	Cirrhosis	10 lbs.
1 pig's leg and chump	Hemorrhægic Spots	12 lbs.
2 legs of pork	Abscess	18 lbs.
1 pig's kidneys	Cystic and Nephretic	½ lb.
8 calves' heads	Decomposition	40 lbs.
32 calves' feet	„	24 lbs.
1 sheep's carcase	Dropsy and Emaciation	41 lbs.
4 sheep's plucks	Decomposition	12 lbs.
1 sheep's liver	Parasitic	2 lbs.
15 legs of lamb	Damage by glass
8 shoulders, aitch bone joint	splinters	103 lbs.
Other articles found unfit for human consumption, and which were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed are as follows :
Skate wings	Decomposition	56 lbs.
3 Boxes of kippers	Unsound	42 lbs.
Yellow fillets	„	7 lbs.
7 Tins of spiced ham	„	42 lbs.
Potatoes	„	1456 lbs.
Bacon	Slime and Bone Taint...	438¾ lbs.

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Assistance was given to the Waltham Abbey Urban District
Council during the year in the inspection of carcases at the Ministry
of Food slaughterhouse situate in that area.

Table: The following table shows the number of carcases examined, and details of diseased or unsound meat will be found in the report of the Medical Officer of that district :

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The following table shows the number of carcases examined, and details of diseased or unsound meat will be found in the report of the Medical Officer of that district :

Bovine	Cows	Calves	• Sheep	Pigs
72	29	22	288	582

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Chingford 1940

Table: The following list gives details of the diseased or unsound meat, included in the above table, which was voluntarily surrendered and destroyed:

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Table: The following table shows the number of carcases examined, and details of diseased or unsound meat will be found in the report of the Medical Officer of that district :