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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
Port of London 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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TABLE XXVI.
The following is a list of pig-carcases found during the year to be affected with tuberculosis. These were seized as unfit for food and destroyed :—
| Date. | Name of Vessel. | Where from. | Where lying. | Number of Carcasses. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911. Jan. 19 | " Koningen Regentes " | Flushing - | Queenborough Pier | 1. |
| „ 20 | " Ayrshire " | Australia - | Victoria Dock - | 1. |
| April 27 | " Carmarthenshire " | Vladivostock | Ditto | 1. |
| June 26 | "Osterley" | Australia - | Ditto | 2. |
| July 12 | ''Geelong" | Ditto | Ditto | 2- |
| „ 12 | ''Ophir" | Ditto | Ditto | 1. |
| „ 19 | "Malwa" | Ditto | Ditto | 4. |
| „ 25 | " Orontes " | Ditto | Ditto | 12. |
| „ 29 | "Runic" | Ditto | Ditto | 2. |
| Aug. 31 | " Marmora " | Ditto | Ditto | 15. |
| Sept. 4 | "Aeneas" | Ditto | Ditto | 2. |
| „ 16 | " Somerset" | Ditto | Ditto | 2. |
| Not. 5 | " Ruapehu " - | New Zealand - | Ditto | 2. |
| „ 8 | "Essex'' | Australia - | Ditto | 5. |
| „ 28 | "Minnewaska" | New York- | Tilbury Dock | 1. |
| Dec. 21 | " Anchises" | Australia - | Royal Albert Dock | 4. |
| Total - | 57. |
PORK.
The s.s. " Somerset," from Melbourne, arrived on the 28th March, with a consignment
of 160 sides of pork.
The Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations, 1908, Article 2 (i) (C) state
that:—
" The expression " Foreign Meat of Class I." means foreign meat in the form
" of severed parts of the carcase of a pig, or of other edible parts of a pig, which
" have not, before importation, been salted cured, pickled, dried, or smoked, or
" otherwise prepared as bacon or ham, and which are not contained in a box, case,
" receptacle, or package with an official certificate impressed thereon, or affixed or
" attached thereto."
These sides of pork therefore clearly came within the description of Foreign Meat,
Class I.
Article V., of the Foreign Meat Regulations, provides that
" The Medical Officer of Health in determining whether, in the case of any
" foreign meat to which these Regulations apply, he shall give a certificate or a
" notice in pursuance of these Regulations, shall observe and comply with the
" following rules, that is to say :—
" He shall not give a certificate and shall give a notice as regards Foreign
" Meat of Class I., and Foreign Meat of Class II."