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City of London 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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AUSTRALIAN BEEF AFFECTED WITH "WORM" (ONCHOCERCA).
No beef affected with "Worm" (Onchocerca) came under the notice of your
officers during the year.
ACTINOMYCOSIS IN OX-TONGUES.
With reference to the above subject referred to in the Annual Report for 1913 and
1914, only a very small proportion of the Ox-tongues which arrived in the Port of
London during the year 1915 were examined by vour Officers. The remainder were,
at the request of the consignees, allowed to leave the district of the Port of London
Sanitary Authority (without inspection) for removal to cold stores with the City of
London, the Metropolitan Boroughs of Bermondsey and Finsbury and the City of
Liverpool, to be examined there under the supervision of the Medical Officers of Health
of those districts.
Seven consignments from Argentina were examined by your Officers and showed
1.25, nil (2), 1.15, .4, .39, .79 per cent, respectively affected with Actinomycosis.
The examination of one consignment from Montevideo showed .83 per cent, of
affected tongues, and of two consignments from Griqualand 1.4 and .63 per cent, affected.
MUTTON AND LAMB.
The total importations of frozen Mutton and Lamb into the United Kingdom during 1915 amounted to 12,191,361 carcases.
| From Australia - | 3,582,911 carcases. |
| „ New Zealand | 6,494,197 „ |
| ,, South America | 1,450,526 „ |
| ,, United States | 2,550 „ |
| „ China | 107 „ |
| Total | - 12,191,361 carcases. |
This was a decrease of 597,478 carcases, or 4.7 per cent, on the total for 1914.
The total number of carcases discharged from vessels in the Port of London was :—
| From Australia | 1,413,183 carcases. |
| ,, New Zealand | 6,146,615 „ |
| ,, South America | 976,092 „ |
| ,, China .... | 107 |
| Total - | 8,535,997 carcases. |
This was an increase of 39,262 carcases, and represented 70.01 per cent, (compared
with 6643 per cent, in 1914) of the total quantity imported into the United Kingdom.
The quantity seized by your Officers and destroyed as unfit for human food was
64 tons 2 cwts. 1 qr. 15 lbs,, and comprised 2,897 carcases, 369 pieces and sundry
trimmings.
The largest individual seizure was 938 carcases, weighing 23 tons 9 cwts., on a
vessel which arrived in the port in a damaged condition.